A consumer court served a notice on Monday on a dress designer for October 16 in a suit seeking Rs500,000 damages for not delivering garments in time.
Petitioner Zamir Fatima contended that she purchased Rs14,000 garments from respondent Naeem Chaudhry, owner of the Naeem Dress Designer, Liberty Market, on July 11 and paid Rs7,000 in advance. She said the designer was due to deliver the garments on August 10, which he didn’t. When Eidul Fitr got closer, she went to the shop but found it closed. She was told by a neighbouring shopkeeper that Chaudhry had gone home to celebrate Eid.
She told the court she was to wear the dress on Eid. After Eid, she again visited the shop and Chaudhry used derogatory language against her when she questioned his departure without delivering her garments.
She prayed to the court to direct the respondent to pay Rs7000 which she had paid in advance, Rs5,000 for the phone calls she made to him and 488,000 as damages for the mental agony she suffered.
Chaudhry told The Express Tribune that Fatima had concocted the story. He said he had stitched the suit in time but Fatima did not collect it. He said he had not closed his shop before Eid.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 25th, 2012.
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That's the right way ............ we should learn it well written article!!
Well, at least no one shot anybody to death like that other story about delayed eid clothes I remember reading about...better to be overly litigious than murderous.
I also like that we have functioning consumer courts (apparently).