Water treatment plant -- Allegedly not found functioning satisfactorily - Sample collected sent to National Test House and the result was against the complainant - No material to show that the machine was defective or that it is not giving satisfactory service - Held that it is difficult to sustain the judgment of the Forum decreeing the claim...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1),(c) -- Complaint - Maintainability - Complaint filed by appellant a voluntary consumer association relating to the deficiency in supply of drinking water by the respondent Municipal Corporation dismissed in limine by the National Commission by observing that these are not cases of consumer dispute but are in the nature of public..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 22 -- Review - National Commission is not empowered to review its own order - Even an ex-parte order on merit cannot be reviewed - The present Misc. petition for review held to be not maintainable as it is not permissible under the law...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1),(g), Carriage by Air Act, 1972, Section 12 -- Air carriage - Consignees given notice of the arrival of the consignments but there was no response from them and consignment remained undelivered - Appellant conveyed a request much later that consignment should be re-routed - The appellant was informed to make a deposit of a..........
Official Secrets Act, 1923, Section 1(2) -- Secret information passed to enemy country which could seriously jeopardize national security - Act is applicable to Indian citizens as well - Bail granted to accused in the pretext that he is neither Govt. servant or Indian citizen living outside, cancelled forthwith...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 21 -- Complex question of law and facts - The National Commission has to decide matters in summary jurisdiction - It is not an appropriate forum to decide cases involving complex question both of law and facts - Such type of cases require a great deal of time which this Commission can ill afford - Held that the present complaint being..........
National Security Act, 1980, Section 3(2) -- Detention order - Quashing of - Validity - Contention that order of detention quashed by High Court solely on ground that Lt. Governor rejected representation of detenu taking into consideration report submitted by advisory board and therefore, did not consider representation independently - No finding that there was delay or..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 197 -- Misappropriation of money by encashing National Saving Certificates - Offence committed by accused is not done while acting or purporting to act in the discharge of official duty - Commission of offence having no direct connection or inseparable link with duty as public servant - Previous sanction for prosecution is not..........
National Security Act, 1980, Section 3(2) -- Preventive detention - Non supply of report of sponsoring authority to detenu and non informing him that he has right to make representation to State Government - Amounts to denial of his right under Article 22(5) COI - Order of detention is vitiated - Detenu to be released forthwith...........
Defective seeds -- District Forum relying upon the observations of the National Commission in `M/s. Jyoti Marketing & Projects Ltd. & anr. vs. Pandian and anr.', 1992(1) CPR 781 : 1993(1) CLT 126, and holding that the complaints were not maintainable under the Consumer Protection Act as the complainants were not the consumers of the opposite parties - District Forum..........
