Consumer forum

A consumer forum here has said that Railways cannot shirk its liability towards refund of tickets as it asked the PSU behemoth's northern zonal branch to pay over Rs 2,000 to a man after it failed to refund him the money for his cancelled tickets.

A consumer forum here has rapped two women for filing a complaint on "frivolous grounds" against a beauty parlour by "tampering" with its receipts for availing benefits of life time services.

Observing that medical profession has been affected by "greed" with doctors not hesitating to put life of patients at risk, a consumer forum ordered hospital to pay Rs 2.5 lakh to pregnant woman.

SBI has been directed by a consumer forum to pay Rs 34,000 to a customer for violating RBI norms by refunding after 189 days an amount which was erroneously debited from account after an unsuccessful ATM transaction.

Indian Railways has been directed by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation for the harassment suffered by a passenger, who was made to run from one station to another to get his ticket cancelled.

Airline SpiceJet has been directed to pay Rs 15,000 as token compensation to its passenger for serving him non-veg food instead of vegetarian preferred by him.

Manipal Hospital Bangalore and its four doctors have been directed by the apex consumer forum to pay Rs 5.1 lakh towards rehabilitation of a minor girl whose right forearm was amputated due to their negligence.

A prominent public school in the city has been directed by a consumer forum to pay Rs 33,650 as compensation to a student for charging money to provide a transfer certificate.

A prominent public school in the city has been directed by a consumer forum to pay Rs 33,650 as compensation to a student for charging money to provide a transfer certificate.

Reebok India Limited has been directed by a consumer forum to pay Rs 7,999 compensation to a customer for not repairing or replacing a pair of shoes.

A city-based diagnostic clinic has been ordered by a consumer forum to pay Rs 2.05 lakh as damages to a 25-year-old youth for wrongly diagnosing him as HIV-positive.

The DTC is overcharging passengers, flouting law on fare with impunity, a Delhi district consumer forum has ruled.

The Delhi government has been asked by a consumer forum here to check the "unfair trade practice" of overcharging diners by restaurants.

Smita Achyut Karekar died after a surgery for slip disc at a private hospital on October 10, 1997.

The Consumer Disputes Redressal
Forum on Thursday imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on a gas agency for
delaying delivery of cylinders to an elderly woman.

The forum also asked the HDFC Bank to pay Rs one lakh as
compensation to Singh, besides a litigation cost of Rs 10,000.

In one of a rare decision of its kind,
a builder has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by the
consumers redressal forum here for not complying with its
earlier order.

The Delhi State Consumer
Commission has pulled up PNB for wrongly
showing entry of withdrawal from a customer account and asked
it to pay a compensation of Rs 12,500 to the complainant.

The country`s apex consumers`
grievance redressal forum has expressed grave concern over
cases of doctors luring patients with "misleading" claims to
treat incurable diseases.

Members of a Consumer Forum
cannot be appointed in an arbitrary manner at the behest of
ministers and others, the Supreme Court has ruled.