Haryana

StateCommission

RP/61/2018

ORIENTAL BANK OF COMMERCE - Complainant(s)

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MEENAKSHI GUPTA - Opp.Party(s)

VIVEK DAWAR

27 Apr 2018

ORDER

STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION HARYANA, PANCHKULA

                                                 

Revision Petition No.    61 of 2018

Date of Institution:       25.04.2018

Date of Decision:         27.04.2018

 

 

Oriental Bank of Commerce, Near Kanod Gate, Jeevli Bazar, Rewari, through its Branch Manager.

….Petitioner-Opposite Party

 

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Meenakshi Gupta d/o Naresh Chand, resident of Bas Sitab Rai, Rewari.

…..Respondent-Complainant

 

 

 

CORAM:   Hon’ble Mr. Justice Nawab Singh, President.

                   Shri Balbir Singh, Judicial Member.

                  

 

 

Present:     Shri Vivek Dawar, counsel for the petitioner.

 

                            

 

O R D E R

 

 NAWAB SINGH, J (ORAL)

 

Oriental Bank of Commerce, Jeevli Bazar, Rewari-opposite party (Bank) is in revision against the orders dated January 02^nd, 2018 and March 21^st, 2018 passed by District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Rewari (District Forum), whereby Bank was proceeded ex parte and it’s application for setting aside the ex parte order was dismissed, respectively.  

2.      Learned counsel for the Bank has urged that the impugned orders be set aside; opportunity be granted to the Bank to file written version and contest the complaint. The next date of hearing before the District Forum is April 30^th, 2018.

 3.     It is always better to decide the matter on merits. Ends of justice would be met if an opportunity is granted to the Bank to file written version and contest the complaint.   Accordingly, this revision petition is accepted and the impugned orders are set aside subject to the conditional cost of Rs.5000/- which is to be paid by the Bank to the respondent-complainant, on the date fixed, before the District Forum. The Bank is accorded opportunity to file written version and join the proceedings.         

4.      This revision petition is disposed of without issuing notice to the respondent with a view to impart substantive justice to the parties and to save the huge expenses, which may be incurred by the respondent as also in order to avoid unnecessary delay in adjudication of the matter.  Reliance can be placed on a Division Bench Judgment of Hon’ble Punjab and Haryana High Court rendered in   Batala Machine Tools Workshop Cooperative Vs. Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Gurdaspur (CWP No.9563 of 2002) decided on June 27^th, 2002.

5.      The Bank is directed to appear before the District Forum, on April 30^th, 2018, the date already fixed.

6.      Copy of this order be sent to the District Forum.     

 

Announced 27.04.2018

(Balbir Singh) Judicial Member

(Nawab Singh) President

D.R.