Bond between employee and employeer

One should always consult elders in the family, competent and experienced well wishers, lawyer/law firm before signing on the dotted line. It is better than suffering later.

Your elders in the family, competent and experienced well wishers, lawyer/law firm could have advised you before submitting the resignation letter.

You may post the copy of your bond, appointment/offer letter, legal notice etc in the forum, if you wish you can erase the name etc.

Kindly visit experienced and competent service lawyer with all the docs and records and your lawyer shall submit appropriate reply to the legal notice.

if you have date wise attendance record and other records to establish that you have been made to work on off days/holidays etc you may  lodge a complaint with local o/o labor commissioner and claim the payment of earned wages, OT, damages etc. Your lawyer may advice you to include the threats of imprisonment in your complaint, to local o/o labor commissioner and may advice to lodge a complaint under provisions of anti slavery, and may lodge a complaint with human rights commission.

you better to consult a nearer lawyer and share all details with him and ask him to reply the legal notice with in stupulated time. he will guide you proper way  and solve the prob.

Thanks Kumar and sankar for your valuable reply,

This is not a Labour matter at present...Serious criminal matter. How can you say that it was a blank cheque. Consult with a good criminal lawyer.

Nogotiable instrument act gives liberty to th eholder fo the chque to complete the details left blank by the drawer. Whn you sign undate cheque for the ocmpnay you entered slavehood and it is not good for the slaves to complaint about long working hours, lack of weekly off and lack of heatlh. But situation chaged in 1976 when bonder labiour act was passed.  what your employer is doing is indulging in bonder labour.  Keeping you under debt for crubing your right to resign. Now criminal case will succeed against you if the amount stated in the cheque was really due to the company [legally due not exttortion]. Now you say that you got notice one year back on Oct 2010 and your company has done nothing.  Appraently they have lost change to proceed under S/138 of NI Act. Perhpas they have to file a civil suit only [if the dates given by you are correct]