Alteration altercation: Clothing store sued for losing kurtas

Petitioner demands Rs200,000 after shirts are damaged by apprentice tailor.

LAHORE:

A man has sued a clothing store for Rs200,000 after it lost two boski kurtas he had given them for stitching. A consumer court on Tuesday issued notice to the chief executive of Dandy Designs for July 4.

Petitioner Rana Khalid Umar told the court that he gave the clothing store on The Mall the two shirts and was charged Rs700 each for their stitching. The cost of the original shirts, he said, was Rs6,000.

He said that his shirts had been given to an untrained tailor who had ruined them. He said he took his complaint to the owner of the clothing store but the respondent first delayed the matter, then refused to compensate or satisfy him.

Umar said the respondent had also threatened him and refused to return his shirts to him when he asked for them back. He then served a legal notice on the respondent.

He asked the court to direct Dandy Designs to pay him Rs6,000 for the shirts, Rs1,400 for the stitching charges, Rs50,000 for labour charges and transportation, Rs100,000 for “mental torture” and Rs42,600 for counsel’s fees.

The court then issued notice to the chief executive of Dandy Designs for July 4.

Contacted by The Express Tribune, Waheed Chaudhry, the chief executive of Dandy Designs, said that they had lost the two shirts the petitioner gave them for alteration.

But he said they offered Umar two new Boski shirts which he refused to accept. “He demanded the shirts that we had lost,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 8th, 2011.