Consumer court: Furniture shop sued for Rs200,000

Petitioner asked the court to award him Rs200,000 in damages.

LAHORE:

A consumer court has issued notice to the proprietor of a furniture shop which has been sued for Rs200,000 over the sale of a bed.

The petitioner submitted that he had purchased the bed, without a mattress, and a sofa from Rana Furniture in Faisal Town for Rs42,000. He said that the respondent had assured him that the bed would accommodate a spring mattress, and if it didn’t, it would be replaced.

The petitioner said that it turned out that the spring mattress did not fit the bed and he contacted the furniture store to claim a replacement bed the following day. He said that staff at the store told him the bed would be replaced the next day, but that had still not happened. He said that the store owner was not answering his calls. The owner had also been unavailable to meet him when he went to the store, he said. He asked the court to award him Rs200,000 in damages.

Muhammad Zaib, the store’s proprietor, told The Express Tribune that he had sold the petitioner a standard-sized bed while the spring mattress was of a larger size, which is why it had not fit. He said that he had told the petitioner that the wooden frame of the bed would be replaced, but he would not be able to do so until after August 30 as he was busy with his daughter’s wedding.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 22^nd, 2013.