Hoodwinked?: Notice issued to phone vendor

LAHORE:

A consumer court issued a notice for March 12 to the owner of HKT Mobile on Monday in a suit seeking damages of Rs823,000 for selling a Hungo Boss mobile phone as a Samsung phone.

The petitioner, Hafiz Hassan Saeed, said that on November 17, he purchased a phone from HKT Mobile, on Hall Road, for Rs23,000. He said that the phone stopped working after a few days and he found out that the mobile phone was actually made by Hungo Boss. He said the shop keepers refused to replace the mobile phone.

He asked the court to direct the respondent to return the Rs23,000 and pay Rs500,000 in damages and Rs300,000 for mental torture.

Employees of HKT Mobile said they had never sold the mobile phone to the petitioner.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 5^th, 2013.