Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(b) -- Consumer - Complaint maintainability - Residential sites - Commercial sites - Public auction - Auction purchase - On lease hold basis for 99 years - Existing sites (as contrasted from sites to be 'formed') - The purchaser/lessee not a consumer, the owner is not a 'trader' or 'service provider' and the grievance does not relate..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(b), Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952, Section 2(b) , 6 , 7, Chandigarh Lease Hold of Site and Building Rules, 1973 -- Consumer - Complaint maintainability - Residential sites - Commercial sites - Public auction - Auction purchase - Lease hold basis for 99 years - Amenities - Non providing of - Consequently..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(f) -- Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - Truck - Manufacturing defect - Allegations by complainant - Unauthorised altering of the specifications of important electro - mechanical parts of a registered motor vehicle is against the provisions of the MV Act, 1988, Chapter VII and VIII and the rules framed thereunder - Such acts are..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g) , 14(1)(d) -- Chandigarh Allotment of Land to Co - operative House Building Societies Scheme, 1991, Clause 8 - Housing - Co - operative housing society - Plot allotment - Alleged delay in finalization of Zoning Plan - Zonal Plan sanctioned within a period of one month from the date it was applied - The delay in the process was..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 24A -- Limitation - Plot allotment - Cooperative Society - Alleged delay - Cause of action had arisen sometime in 1995 - 1996 or latest by 1998 - Complaint filed in the year 2002 without explaining any circumstance for not filing the same within the prescribed period of limitation - Complaint filed by the complainants - respondent..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 24A -- Limitation - Surrender of plot by complainant and he accepted the refund on 24.4.2003 without any protest - Complaint filed after more than two years from the date of acceptance of the refund held to be barred as per Section 24A of CP Act...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(d) -- Consumer - Plot allotment - Surrender of plot - Refund accepted - Ground of surrender of plot that essential amenities were not there - Complaint filed for re - allotment of plot - Noting on record on behalf of the complainant that the essential amenities like roads, electricity, sewerage and drinking water facilities were..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(d) -- Consumer - Truck bought in auction purchase by appellant for a consideration to be used exclusively by him for the purpose of earning his livelihood by means of self employment - There is nothing on record to show that he wanted to use the truck for any commercial purpose - Even if he was to employ a driver for running the..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g) , 2(1)(o) -- Deficiency in service - Compensation - Truck - Auction purchase - Relevant papers of the truck were handed over to the appellant only after six years from the date of the auction and appellant could not ply the truck - No plausible or convincing reason assigned by respondent for the delay - A case of deficiency in..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 14(1)(d) -- Compensation - Interest - Even though the Act specifically does not authorize to grant interest yet in appropriate cases, grant of interest on the facts and circumstances of the case is permissible - Interest @6% p.a. from the date of the original application till actual payment of the enhanced awarded amount directed to..........
