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Society ordered to pay compensation

Bangalore: Bangalore Urban District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed the KEB Employees’ Cooperative Society to pay a compensation of Rs. 1 lakh to one of its members for failing to allot him a site even 10 years after receiving his application.

The forum, comprising its president A.M. Bennur and members Syed Usman Razvi and M. Yashodamma, passed the order while partly allowing a plea by K.N. Nanjundaswamy, a resident of Chandra Layout, Bangalore.

The society has also been directed to refund Rs. 2.27 lakh which the complainant had deposited between 1995 and 2005 with the society, for allotment of a site.

The complainant had alleged that the society demanded additional Rs. 6.15 lakh from him in 2007 for allotment of a site while allotting sites at the old rate to 55 other members. As the society failed to submit documents to disprove the allegation, the forum directed the society to pay compensation besides refunding the amount, deposited by him, with interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum from April 2005.

The Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has dismissed the plea of two Bagalkot-based advocates, Suresh M.K and Mallikarjun E.K, who had sought travel fare to be given to them to reach Kodaikanal under a “free holiday in India” scheme won by them when they purchased a motorcycle.

The Bagalkot District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum had directed Innovative Incentive Holidays Limited and Vijaya Motors to pay Rs. 20,000 each as compensation to the complainant-advocates while holding that the firms had engaged in “unfair trade practice.”

However, the commission dismissed the order of the forum holding that travel fare was not part of the scheme and hence the complainants were not entitled to any relief.

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