Chandra Layout

Ravi

Bala

Owner of Spirit Fit scoots after collecting membership fee from around 600 clientsFitness enthusiasts and trainers were left aghast after the sudden closure of a fitness centre near the National Law School inwithout prior intimation. Around 600 people had paid and signed up to join the annual personal training package, some even as late as in December, when it appears the owner had already decided to shut shop and flee.Unable to get through to, the owner of Spirit Fit in Canara Layout, some have now knocked the doors of police. Among them is Sweety, a software engineer. She has filed a complaint with the Chandra Layout police station along with 12 others.A few trainers too have complained they have not been paid their salary dues.Though the centre has been closed since December, Ravi allegedly took money from the people promising them that the facilities and training would be provided elsewhere. However, the fitness centre never reopened. “I had paid Ravi `16,000 for couple annual package and due to a leg injury I couldn’t attend the gym. When we returned, he told us we cannot continue with the package, so I paid him `14,000 on November 12, to which he promised me to provide personal training. In two days, the trainer stopped coming as he was not paid by Ravi.On December 25, Ravi closed the fitness centre without informing anyone. When we contacted him over the phone, he told us he would provide us the promised facilities at some other fitness centre,” Bala told Bangalore Mirror.She said all the people who had paid waited for three months, but neither did they get fitness training nor was the money returned. Bala said, around 600 persons have been conned by Ravi.A Chandra Layout police told BM, a case has been registered against Ravi. “Around 12 people have given us the documents and we are collecting more documents. Ravi is claiming he will give them service at another place. We are yet to arrest him,” he said.