Telephone Service -- Deficiency in service - Defect in the telephone set right after a delay of 53 days - Contention of the appellant-Chennai Telephones that the delay occurred as they could not get the permission of the Chennai Corporation for digging up pits in the road for pretty long, repelled on the ground that not even a single correspondence had been placed on..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1),(d),2(1),(o) -- Consumer - Service - Booking of a plot/house - Allotment subsequently cancelled on account of default in payment of the amount as per terms of allotemnt - Complainants are consumers within the meaning of Section 2(1) (d) of the Act and OPs are providing service for consideration within the meaning of Section 2(1)..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1),(g),14(1),(d) -- Housing - Registration fee - Refund - Deficiency in service - Interest - Delay of 6-7 years in refund of registration fee - Award of interest @ 18% p.a. on the amount of deposit made by the claimants by the District Forum upheld...........
Service -- Probationer - Termination of service - Services of probationer can be terminated when he is found not suitable for the job for which he was engaged...........
Service -- Probationer - Termination of service - Order mentioning that a Committee which had been constituted came to the conclusion that the job proficiency of the respondent was not upto the mark - Held, it is a valid reason for terminating the services of the respondent - That reason cannot be cited and relied upon by contending that the termination was by way of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 5, Rule 20 -- Substituted service - Summons not returned by process server - Explanation of process server not sought as to why summons were not returned - In such circumstances order for substituted service by publication on unserved defendant is not valid...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 5, Rule 15 -- Summons - Service on adult member of family - Can be made if defendant is absent from residence and would not return within reasonable time...........
Service -- Departmental proceedings - Challenge by a stranger - Held, in respect of departmental proceedings which are initiated or sought to be initiated by the Government against its employees, a person who is not even remotely connected with those proceedings cannot challenge any aspect of the departmental proceedings or action - Public interest of general importance is..........
Service -- Departmental proceedings - Finding of fact arrived at a disciplinary inquiry can be interfered by Court only when there was no material for such conclusion or that on the materials, the conclusion cannot be that of a reasonable man...........
Service -- Compulsory retirement - Departmental proceedings - Enquiry Officer concluded that charges against delinquent were proved - Central Administrative Tribunal found no invalidity in inquiry proceedings and dismissed application - Appeal - Delinquent had pressed for production of some documents before Enquiring Officer and some of those documents were proved - No..........
