| Address: Kolkata, West Bengal |
From Date : 9th January, 2015
Avijit Sarkar
37/5, Bangasress Pally
Kolkata – 700 060
Phone - [protected]
To
1. Vice President – Customer Relations,
HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited
11th Floor, Lodha Excelus,
Apollo Mills Compound,
N. M. Joshi Road, Mahalaxmi
Mumbai – 400 011
2. The Manager,
HDFC SL,
Shyam Bazar Branch,
1st & 2nd Floor Building No.
123, Vidhan Sarani, Shyam Bazaar,
Beside Bagh Bazar Bata, Above NIIT,
Kolkata – 700 004
Dear Sirs,
Kindly note that I had taken out an Insurance Policy with HDFC Life being Policy No. 17232430, Plan – HDFC Life Super Income Plan on or about December 4, 2014. However due to some financial uncertainty which had arisen suddenly, I had decided to discontinue the policy. As such a request was made to the Company and the Company allowed me to withdraw the policy and the first premium amount of Rs.36082/- was refunded by the Company to me on January 7, 2015.
The said policy had been taken out through one Ms. Sujata Mishra having License No.9892844, Agent No.00550058 of 25 Kendra Main Road, Purbayan Apartment, Flat no. 12, 3rd Floor, P.S. Patuli, Kolkata, West Bengal – 700 084. The Agent had been very persuasive when she had first approached me and my wife for taking out the said Policy through her. Though we had shown some reservation she with her persuasive nature had been successful enough to convince us to take out the policy. It was in this regard that the lady visited me at my work place on few occasions, initially to persuade us to take out the policy and later for completing the official formalities for taking out the policy.
However a day after I received the refund of the premium i.e. on January 8, 2015, the said lady Sujata Mishra together with one Sunil Kumar Tiwari (whom she represented as her boss) visited our residence at about 8 pm in my absence. Only my house help was present at home. Since the house help objected
to let Sujata Mishra inside the house, Sujata Mishra represented herself as a police officer and forcibly entered the house. She also started questioning my house help regarding her personal details and finally asked for her mobile number. My house help refused to share the number with the lady. In the meantime my wife, Pratima Sarkar, reached the house.
However from the very moment she ( Ms. Sujata Mishra ) arrived at our residence she started shouting and screaming making unnecessary allegations against me for withdrawing the policy. When asked how she can object to such withdrawal she started shouting further that such withdrawal of policy has hurt her career and that she is entitled to compensation for such withdrawal of policy. When Smt. Pratima Sarkar refused to succumb to such monetary demands the said Sujata Mishra started threatening Smt. Pratima Sarkar with dire consequences and loss of life and property. Smt. Pratima Sarkar tried to reason with her but failed. Sujata Mishra further threatened her that Sunil Kumar Tiwari, who was accompanying her would support her in her acts of revenge. The said Sunil Kumar Tiwari also repeated the threats as made earlier by Sujata Mishra.
At this stage Smt. Pratima Sarkar feeling very helpless and under severe threat from the said Sujata Mishra and Sunil Kumar Tiwari, raised her voice and called for help from her neighbours who then gathered and started objecting to such behavior and to such threats made by the two persons. Seeing so many neighbours gathering around them and protesting against their threats and behaviour, Sujata Mishra and Sunil Kumar Tiwari retreated hastily though after threatening to come back another day.
I and my wife are both astounded at the behavior of an associate of a reputed company as yours. It never occurred to us that a mere withdrawal of a policy could lead to such a nasty consequence.
In this situation we are very apprehensive of loss of life and property and seek your intervention to stop the above two persons from causing any danger to us. We are feeling a sense of helplessness and we beseech you to look into the matter with great urgency and appreciate the gravity of the same.
We had associated ourselves with your Company with great expectations considering the reputation your Company carries with itself. However we are extremely disappointed and we are now feeling extremely threatened and fearful.
We also request you to take steps to train and condition your employees/agents/associates or any other person related to you directly and indirectly to restrain themselves from this kind of behavior. We also expect you to take this matter up seriously and deal with it accordingly. We have already intimated the local police station about the incident.
We look forward to some appropriate action against your aforesaid agent and her boss from your end in this matter.
Yours faithfully.
Avijit Sarkar
Awaiting for your reply. ???????