Bad business: Vendor sued over ‘defective’ clock sale
Petitioner Muhammad Aslam said he had taken the device back for repair
LAHORE:
A consumer court on Friday issued a notice to a proprietor in a suit seeking damages for sale of a defective wall clock. Petitioner Muhammad Aslam contended that the clock he had bought from Haji Enayat had malfunctioned a few days after the transaction. He said he had taken the device back for repair. However, it stopped working again a few days later, he said. He took it to the proprietor for a second time and asked him to either replace it with another article or return his money but the latter refused to do so.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2015.
A consumer court on Friday issued a notice to a proprietor in a suit seeking damages for sale of a defective wall clock. Petitioner Muhammad Aslam contended that the clock he had bought from Haji Enayat had malfunctioned a few days after the transaction. He said he had taken the device back for repair. However, it stopped working again a few days later, he said. He took it to the proprietor for a second time and asked him to either replace it with another article or return his money but the latter refused to do so.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2015.