Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 695 · Decided 9 October 2014
General Motors (India) Private Limited v. Ashok Ramnik Lal Tolat & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 695 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 16
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8072/2009
- Decided
- 9 October 2014
- Bench
- V. GOPALA GOWDA, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act Section 2(1)(r)
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986: s.2(1)(r) - Unfair trade practice - Complaint against appellant - Claiming refund of amount - Courts below found that the appellant had committed unfair trade practice - National Commission apart from ordering on the claim, also 0 - Held: Finding of unfair trade practice affirmed - But order of punitive damages set aside because such claim was not made by the complainan.t and the appellant had no notice of such claim. s.2(1)(r) - Unfair trade practice - Mere proof of unfair E labour practice not enough for claim or award
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