Haryana

StateCommission

RP/59/2018

MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD. - Complainant(s)

Versus

ROHTASH AND OTHERS - Opp.Party(s)

SALIL SABHLOK

07 May 2018

ORDER

STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION HARYANA, PANCHKULA

                                                 

Revision Petition No.    59 of 2018

Date of Institution:       25.04.2018

Date of Decision:         07.05.2018

 

 

Maruti Suzuki India Limited, registered office at: Plot No.1, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070.

 

 

…….Petitioner-Opposite Party No.1

 

Versus

 

1.      Rohtash son of Shri Chanderpal Singh, resident of Village and Post Office Hameerpur, District Gurugram.

 

….Respondent No.1-Complainant

 

2.      Rana Motors Private Limited, Workshop, Plot No.60, IDC, Opposite Sector-14, Mehrauli Road, Gurugram, through its authorized signatory.

 

 

……Respondent No.2-Opposite Party No.2

 

 

 

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

                   Shri Balbir Singh, Judicial Member.

         

 

Present:     Shri Salil Sabhlok, counsel for the petitioner.

 

                            

O R D E R

 

 

 

NAWAB SINGH, J. (ORAL)

 

          By filing this revision, Maruti Suzuki India Limited-opposite party No.1 (petitioner) has challenged the order dated March 12^th, 2018 passed by District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Gurgaon (‘District Forum’), whereby petitioner was proceeded ex parte.

2.      Learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that due to miscommunication nobody could appear before the District Forum on March 12^th, 2018. The next date of hearing before the District Forum is May 11^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 petitioner to file written version and contest the complaint.   Accordingly, this revision petition is accepted and the impugned order is set aside subject to the conditional cost of Rs.5000/- which is to be paid by the petitioner to the respondent No.1-complainant, on the date fixed, before the District Forum. The petitioner is accorded opportunity to file written version and join the proceedings.      

4.      This revision petition is disposed of without issuing notice to the respondents with a view to impart substantive justice to the parties and to save the huge expenses, which may be incurred by the respondents 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 petitioner is directed to appear before the District Forum, on May 11^th, 2018, the date already fixed.

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

 

Announced 07.05.2018

(Balbir Singh) Judicial Member

(Nawab Singh) President

  D.R.