Consumer court: Goods business ordered to pay damages
Delivery company had lost insulation material.
The proceedings were held ex-parte after the company’s counsel did not appear before the court despite repeated notices.
LAHORE:
A consumer court on Monday directed the proprietor of Rustam Punjab Goods to pay Rs110,000 in damages to a petitioner who had sued the company for not delivering goods to a third party.
Petitioner Javed Anjum Nazmi had sought Rs150,000 – Rs100,000 as the cost of the goods he had asked the company to deliver and Rs50,000 as damages.
Nazmi said that on July 24, 2010 he had asked the Akbari Gate-based company to deliver electric insulation sleeve material worth Rs100,000 to a client. But the respondent had neither delivered the goods nor returned them.
Nazmi said that when he had asked the company about his missing goods, they told him they had been delivered. The proceedings were held ex-parte after the company’s counsel did not appear before the court despite repeated notices.
Initially, the company had submitted a written statement rejecting the petitioner’s allegation, saying that Nazmi had not booked any electric insulation sleeve material for delivery.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2013.
A consumer court on Monday directed the proprietor of Rustam Punjab Goods to pay Rs110,000 in damages to a petitioner who had sued the company for not delivering goods to a third party.
Petitioner Javed Anjum Nazmi had sought Rs150,000 – Rs100,000 as the cost of the goods he had asked the company to deliver and Rs50,000 as damages.
Nazmi said that on July 24, 2010 he had asked the Akbari Gate-based company to deliver electric insulation sleeve material worth Rs100,000 to a client. But the respondent had neither delivered the goods nor returned them.
Nazmi said that when he had asked the company about his missing goods, they told him they had been delivered. The proceedings were held ex-parte after the company’s counsel did not appear before the court despite repeated notices.
Initially, the company had submitted a written statement rejecting the petitioner’s allegation, saying that Nazmi had not booked any electric insulation sleeve material for delivery.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2013.