FIR on e-commerce company CLUB Factory for selling fake goods

 

On receiving no response from the club factory, the complainant contacted Titan and Ray-Ban's customer care.

Lucknow: An FIR has been registered against Chinese e-commerce company Club Factory, its directors Jialun Li, Garvit Agarwal and CFO Ashwini Rastogi for cheating under sections 420 and 406 of the IPC for selling counterfeit goods of famous brands. Alok Kakkar, a resident of Lucknow, has lodged this complaint with the Wazirabad police station. In the complaint, he has said that the club factory has given fake products to customers under a criminal conspiracy by advertising huge discounts on popular brands.

The complainant had purchased a Titan watch from the club factory, which had a discount of 86 percent, and had ordered two sunglasses from Ray-Ban, which had been given a discount of 90 percent. He received an order on 25 November, which upon opening revealed to him that both the products ordered were fake.

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After this, he tried to contact the tollfree number provided by the company. However, he did not get any clear information on this. On the website of the club factory, the seller was named Mahakal Enterprise and Perfect Times. The complainant emailed the company for a copy of the invoice, but he was not given that copy of the invoice.

On receiving no response from the club factory, the complainant contacted Titan and Ray-Ban's customer care. After this they came to know that both the companies have no connection with the club factory nor do they sell their products through the club factory.

At the same time, Kakkar also said in his complaint that his representatives threatened him instead of resolving the problem when he spoke again at the toll free number of the club factory.

A complaint has also been filed against the company under Section 506 of IPC related to the criminal threat received by the complainant from the company. Cases against sections 420, 406, 506 and 120B of the IPC against the company CFO Ashwini Rastogi and the complaint officer of the club factory, fraud, criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation against the two directors of the company, Jialun Lee and Garvit Aggarwal. Has been registered Police officials said that further investigation is being done into the matter.