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In a uncommon instance, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (DCDRC), Tiruppur, connected Thursday, directed a complainant to wage ₹50,000 towards exemplary outgo for “vexatious and baseless complaint” filed against the other party.
In a ailment filed nether Section 35 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, connected June 15, 2025, Sivakumar of Devanurpudur adjacent Udumalpet had demanded compensation of ₹1 crore for intelligence agony and distress, too the outgo of litigation from the proprietor of a restaurant, Ramesh.
According to the complainant, helium had visited the edifice connected December 7, 2024, and ordered chickenhearted dishes for ₹500. After 45 minutes of wait, the proprietor had asked him to spot the bid for the 2nd time.
The assertion of the complainant was that the proprietor had flung the currency enactment for the magnitude for which the outgo was made connected g-pay level connected the floor. He said the restaurant, though advertised arsenic vegetarian, was utilising a communal room for non-vegetarian dishes arsenic well.
When the complainant had uploaded antagonistic review, the edifice proprietor had responded by describing the erstwhile arsenic an alcoholic and a trouble-monger. The complainant claimed that having been a teetotaller, helium had been subjected to intelligence agony.
After examining the lawsuit from some sides, the DCDRC surmised that determination was “no deficiency successful service”, and that “Compensation was claimed successful unimaginable manner”. It was a lawsuit of misuse of Consumer Protection Act to drawback wealth unlawfully, the DCDRC contended.
“If the Commission entertains specified benignant of vexatious complaints liberally, the intent of enacting Consumer Protection Act volition not beryllium served,” the bid said, directing the complainant to wage ₹ 50,000 to the other enactment toward exemplary outgo for vexatious and baseless ailment filed by him.
The magnitude has to beryllium deposited successful the Legal Aid Account of DCDRC, Tiruppur, wrong a month, the bid delivered by the Commission consisting of S. Deepa, president and A.S. Rathinasamy, Member- 1, stated.
