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Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Hindustan Times
Chandigarh: Dealer fined ₹25k for not steering exchanged car's transfer
For failing to transfer the ownership of a city resident's old car, exchanged for a new one, which led to a speeding challan landing at his address, a car dealership will be coughing up ₹25,000 as compensation. Terming them guilty of deficiency in service, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-DF 1 has directed the dealership, Lally Motors, to pay the complainant ₹15,000 for mental agony and ₹10,000 as costs of litigation. Further, the dealership has also been told to clear the pending challan and transfer the exchanged car's ownership to either themselves or the new owner to whom they have sold the vehicle. In 2019, the complainant, Dr Swaran Singh, a resident of Sector 18, had walked into Lally Motors in Industrial Area to purchase a Volkswagen Vento car. Under a scheme, he agreed to exchange his old vehicle, valued around ₹2 lakh, which was adjusted against the price of the new vehicle. After the deal, the dealership had issued a delivery letter-cum-undertaking, dated October 23, 2019, promising that they will be responsible for all future taxes, challans and accidents related to the old car. But three years later, Dr Singh received a challan from the Chandigarh Traffic Police in December 2022, much to his surprise. The photograph attached to the challan showed his old car, which had supposedly been sold to someone else by the dealership. On inspecting further, to his shock, Dr Singh learned that the dealership had failed to transfer the car's ownership to its new owner after the exchange. Approaching the consumer commission, the complainant alleged that the car dealership sold his old car further without transferring its ownership, a violation of the Motor Vehicles Act. The dealership was summoned by the commission but they didn't turn up and were proceeded against ex parte on October 21 2024. Skoda Auto Volkswagen India contested the complaint, taking preliminary objections of maintainability, cause of action, jurisdiction and non-joinder of the necessary party. They alleged that so far as selling of the car went, they had nothing to do with it, and it was a matter between the dealership and the complainant. The commission accepted that the company had no role in the dispute and dismissed the complaint against them. However, it observed that the complainant had submitted documentary proof against the dealership, which was not rebutted in any way. Disposing of the complaint, the commission slapped a ₹25,000 penalty on the dealership, including the compensation and litigation costs.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Yahoo
9 vacationing students missing in Mexico found dismembered on highway
Nine bodies, believed to be the remains of missing students, were discovered dismembered on the side of a Mexican highway earlier this week. The remains of four women and five men, originally from Tlaxcala, were found in San José Miahuatlán, in the state of Puebla, in an abandoned Volkswagen Vento, according to Central Puebla Irreverente. The outlet reported that four of the bodies were found in the trunk, while five bodies and a bloody tarp were found inside the vehicle. A bag with eight pairs of hands and two more hands in the trunk were also reportedly recovered. Idamis Pastor Betancourt, head of the State Attorney General's Office, said she could not confirm nor deny the identities of the victims due to the ongoing investigation and 'confidentiality' concerns. 'All relevant investigations are being carried out. When we have a response and the investigation is complete, we will be in a position to provide more information,' Betancourt said Monday during a news conference. Two of the victims were identified by their ID cards as women reported missing in Oaxaca on Feb. 28. Angie Lizeth Perez Garcia, 29, was previously identified by the Oaxaca attorney general as traveling with Brenda Mariel Salas Moya in a Ford Fiesta with Yucatan plates. The latter woman was initially reported missing before being found alive in Puebla. The second identified victim, 21-year-old Lesly Noya Trejo, was identified on Facebook by Yolanda Carrillo Garcia, a city official from Tetla, Tlaxcala. Others reported missing by the Oaxaca attorney general include Raúl Emmanuel González Lozano and Noemí Yamileth Lopez Moratilla, both 28, who were last seen at Zipolite Beach in San Pedro Pochutla on Feb. 28. The mother of 23-year-old Jacqueline Ailet Meza, another missing person, wrote on Facebook last week that her daughter was 'taken' from 'a beach in Huatulco, called Zipolite,' according to El País. The nine people reported missing are said to range in age from 19 to 30. They had all traveled to beaches in Oaxaca, though its unclear how many of them knew each other. _____
