Timeline for Got offer letter, submitted documents but didn't join, now they are asking for money to return my documents?
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| Jul 5, 2018 at 17:56 | comment | added | David Richerby | Sorry, but I can't see this applying to the situation in the question. It sounds like a simple case of the applicant supplying documents to verify claims made in their application (e.g., their qualifications). When companies have finished verifying these things, they return the documents to the applicant (usually easy because they're now an employee so the company can just hand them back). There's no reason that the documents would have been put in some long-term storage facility. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 5:43 | comment | added | user75289 | @SeanDuggan I live in India and the ownership of such documents do not change. You can obtain an duplicate document easily but it would require a Police FIR stating that you lost the document. If the OP does that then he would have lied to the police. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 15:05 | comment | added | Sean Duggan | @KonradRudolph: In the case of exam results, I don't figure there's as much legal protection compared to, say, a birth certificate. I'm not familiar with Indian documents, but this seems parallel to something like an official transcript of college grades, or one's SAT results. If the original document is lost, another one is easily requested. I also sort of wonder if the request for "original documents" was more along the lines of "official documents, not copies" so that they don't get a photocopied or scanned result that lacks a seal of authenticity. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 14:45 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | Generally you’re making a good point but I don’t think this applies here: the documents in question are original legal documents: they can’t change owner except under special circumstances. Of course OP needs to consider the concrete Indian legal situation but it’s unlikely to be very different. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 14:37 | history | answered | Sean Duggan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |