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International companies are answerable to Indian consumer courts for service deficiency, the Supreme Court has ruled, upholding the apex consumer forum’s direction to a Lebanese international courier company to pay 71,615.75 US dollars compensation to a Mumbai-based firm. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and H L Dattu said in a judgement that consumers within the definition of the Consumers Protection Act(CP) can avail remedy for deficiency in service from both consumer fora and regular courts.
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution will soon convene a meeting to discuss the issue of misleading advertisements with various service sector ministries and related agencies. Expressing concern over such advertisements for various consumer products and services, the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Prof. K V Thomas has said that a committee of experts will be set to suggest measures to deal with misleading advertisement effectively.
The Supreme Court last week stated that goods and services hired for commercial purposes cannot be the subject matter of a consumer complaint under the Consumer Protection Act. It set aside the judgment of the National Consumer Commission in the case
Mumbai- Till fairly recently, parties held guilty in consumer forums delayed shelling out compensation by paying only a part or by seeking adjournments. Not anymore. The state consumer commission has, among other measures, precluded payment of compen
It is common knowledge that public information officers often do not furnish the information sought by the applicant under Right to Information Act (RTI). Is an appeal to the appellate authority of the Information Commission the only remedy? Or would failure to furnish information without valid reason constitute a deficiency in service for which compensation can be sought by filing a consumer complaint? This issue has been decided by the National Commission in a trendsetting judgment.
NOTIFICATIONS NO. DPSS.CO. (CHD) NO. 873 / 03.09.01/ 2008-09, DATED 24-11-2008 As you may be aware, during August 2006, a case was filed before National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi (the Commission) under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, inviting attention to the delays in cheque clearing and, specifically, to the issue of float in […]
The State Commission, Delhi, held that services rendered by a Lawyer would not come within the ambit of s. 2(1)(o) of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, as the client executes the power of attorney authorizing the Counsel to do certain acts on his behalf and there is no term of contract as to the liability of the lawyer in case he fails to do any such act. The State Commission held that it is a unilateral contract executed by the client giving authority to the lawyer to appear and represent the matter on his behalf without any specific assurance or undertaking.
Kaun Banega Crorepati – 3 which ran on Star Plus TV from January 2007 to April 2007 under the anchor of Shah Rukh Khan, was running a contest called “Har Seat Hot Seat” in which TV viewers were invited to participate. The contest consisted of answering an objective type question with four possible answers. TV […]
THE Supreme Court has ruled that companies engaged in commercial activities can drag their electricity supplier to a consumer forum and seek damages for deficiency in services. A bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice RM Lodha rejected a plea of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation in which it had said a company using electricity for […]
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 37, read with section 12D of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, hereby makes the following rules
