The consumer forum recently pulled up a franchisee of Raj Travels for cheating one of its customers to the tune of `2,60,000. The complainant had already been paid the original amount following a previous court order, and the consumer forum levied an additional fine of `50,000, along with a nine per cent interest from 2008, on the agency.
In 2008, retired Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officer Shrikant Mishra (76), approached the Suntej Travels agency in Andheri for a 15-day-tour of the US.
Mr Mishra’s son Ramesh said, “The agency told my father that the entire package would cost `2,60,000, which he paid. However, after receiving the amount, the agency did not revert to us regarding the schedule of the tour. Every time we called them, they would put us off saying that bookings would be done in a month’s time. The agency ultimately gave us a cheque for the amount that we had paid, but it bounced.”
The Mishras then approached the Andheri Police and a complaint was registered against the agency’s owner Sanjay Mehta in 2009. The case went to court and while it was underway, the Mishras also approached the consumer forum in 2011. The cheque bouncing case was ultimately decided in the Mishras’ favour, and they received the entire amount three months ago.
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2 more tested positive for h1n1 virus
Age correspondent
mumbai, sept. 2
On Sunday, two more people tested positive for the H1N1 virus taking the tally of total number of swine flu cases in the city to 318 since January this year. Last month 103 people had tested positive for H1N1 in the city. Of the two people who tested positive for H1N1 on Sunday, a 35-year-old woman from Goregoan and 55-year-old man from Antop Hill is admitted at a private hospital in his locality.