A lady seeking the insurance amount from Life Insurance Corporation of India after her husband died of illness within 12 days of the commencement of a policy has failed to get relief from a consumer court.
The consumer body passed the order on a plea of one Deepak Gupta, seeking compensation for the deficiency in service by Air France as he lost two baggages during transit which contained his homoeopathic medicines.
Appellant Puneet Tondon approached the commission seeking damages from Jagson Airlines on account of alleged mental agony undergone by him when he was not allowed aboard the flight despite having the ticket.
New Delhi-based businessman Krishan Kumar Karnani had to cancel his order resulting in humiliation and loss of goodwill in the market as the bank's cheque of Rs 1,72,000 was dishonoured with remarks 'stop payment'. Karnani, who had approached the bank following an advertisement in the newspapers on August 21, 2000 for 'spot loan', was found eligible under the scheme.
Investors in a company declared defunct or sick are entitled to get their money back with interest as such a default on the part of the company amounts to deficiency in service, the Delhi consumer commission has said. Cimmco Birla Limited, a S K Birla group company, approached the commission seeking relief against a district forum's order to pay the redemption amount alongwith interest to city-resident Anil Sethi who had invested Rs 2,000 in the company's debentures in 1991.
The Delhi Consumer Commission has directed the HDFC Bank to pay Rs 35,000 as compensation to an export house for forcibly seizing a financed car on its failure to pay two instalments.
A bank cannot be asked to pay the amount of a misplaced cheque unless it is proved that the instrument has been encashed by a third person, the Delhi Consumer Commission said.At the most, the bank can be held liable to pay compensation for the negligence in misplacing the cheque, the Commission said.
In a significant judgment, the Commission deprecated the "audacity and impunity" with which the banks have been effecting forcible possession of vehicles and ordered ICICI Bank also to pay Rs 50 lakh to a consumer, who was mercilessly beaten by the recovery agents while they snatched a loaned car from him.
The term ectopic pregnancy cannot be put in the straight jacket and iron mould as the word pregnancy appearing in the exclusion clause can, the court said.
Five years after a woman was driven out of a railway coach because of Railways' fault of allotting same seat to two different ticket holders, the Delhi Consumer Commission has fined Northern Railways Rs 25,000 for its act.
The bench ordered Go Air to pay Rs 15,000 to each passenger for cancellation of its flight due to a "technical snag".
Bedi was operated in All India Institute of Medical Sciences on August 22, 2001, for removal of a tumor, but to his utter shock, he was rendered unable to speak following the surgery, the complaint had alleged. Calling the symptom usual, the doctor assured that he would regain his voice after a few days. But in a subsequent test, Bedi was told that a nerve was cut during the surgery and a post-operative negligence in treating the same had led to paralysis of the nerve.