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Bubblegum company told to pay Rs.300,000 compensation
By   IANS
Tuesday,06 January 2009, 19:09 hrs
 
Chandigarh: A well-known bubble-gum company has been directed by a consumer court here to pay a compensation of Rs.300,000 to a customer who was not given a Trip to America prize nearly eight years ago.

The Union Territory (UT) consumer disputes redressal commission, while upholding the 2002 order of a consumer court in Ludhiana city in Punjab, said the bubblegum company, Perfetti India, which manufactures the Big Babool brand of bubblegum, had resorted to unfair trade practices by denying the Ludhiana resident, Jeevan Kumar, his prize.


The Ludhiana consumer court had earlier ordered a compensation of Rs.200,000 to the customer but the company appealed against it. The case was transferred to the commission based at Chandigarh which has imposed the compensation of Rs.200,000 and cost of Rs.100,000 on the company.

The commission held that the company misled consumers through its trip to America prize offer.

Kumar had bought the bubblegum from a shop in Ludhiana in 2001 and found the numbers which made him eligible for the prize inside the wrapper. He claimed the prize but the company said that the wrapper was tampered with and refused to give the same.

After the customer approached the consumer court, the bubblegum company put up various excuses to deny the prize.

     
   
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Reader's comments(4)
1: how can these so-called big companies bring themselves down to such means as cheating the customers openly. they must be punished. such companies names must be known to everybody, so they don't do this mistake again
Posted by: deepak - 07 Jan, 2009
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2: It is good slapping decision for companies which offers fake prize money offers
Posted by: Ravikrishna - 07 Jan, 2009
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3: Company cannot deny the claim under the pretext of tampering. Even assuming and without admitting the onus of responsibility of such alleged tampering is lies with the company and not on the consumer. Government has to ban such firm from manufacturing activity while offering cheap promises.
Posted by: N. RANGARAJAN - 06 Jan, 2009
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4: Why promise something when they are not able to fulfill the same..Now let them compensate..
Posted by: puja - 06 Jan, 2009
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