Enforcement notices
Bharat Singh Chand
No fineEnforcement notices
Root cause
Unlawful direct marketing
Nuisance calls, spam texts or emails sent without valid consent — enforced under PECR rather than UK GDPR.
What happened
Bharat Singh Chand is a self-employed lead generator. Between 3 December 2023 and 3 July 2024, he sent or instigated the sending of 966,449 direct marketing SMS messages in breach of regulations 22 and 23 of PECR. This resulted in 19,138 complaints to the 7726 spam reporting service. He was fined £200,000 and issued with an enforcement notice.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 16 September 2025. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.