{"id":36382,"date":"2014-12-29T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=36382"},"modified":"2014-12-29T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T12:55:43","slug":"2014-consumer-fora-stood-strong-guard-citizens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/2014-consumer-fora-stood-strong-guard-citizens-rights","title":{"rendered":"2014: Consumer fora stood strong to guard citizens&#8217; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Services sector in 2014 continued to be under the watchful eyes of various consumer fora which stood by the motto &#8220;consumer is the king&#8221; and dealt firmly with both government and private entities to protect citizens from unfair trade practices.<\/p>\n<p>Benefit of several campaigns like &#8220;Jago Grahak Jago&#8221; seems to be catching up with the consumers who during the year dared to drag health care giants, banking and insurance major, airlines, Railways, telecom heavy weights and top realtors to various consumer courts for redressal of their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/2014-consumer-fora-stood-strong-guard-citizens-rights\/national-consumer-disputes-redressal-commission-ncdrc\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?fit=136%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"136,192\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission NCDRC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?fit=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?fit=136%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36383\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?resize=136%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission NCDRC\" width=\"136\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?w=136&amp;ssl=1 136w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/National-Consumer-Disputes-Redressal-Commission-NCDRC.png?resize=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a>), the apex consumer body, in August dealt sternly with pharmaceutical giant Novartis India Ltd for over charging and making exorbitant profit on sale of its non-cancerous drug.<\/p>\n<p>Holding that the company was indulging in principles which were against ethics and morality, it said the MRP fixed by Ministry of Health or Ministry of Commence was on a higher side and directed the Centre to take steps to re-fix the MRP of the drug so that the consumers should not suffer.<\/p>\n<p>Lal Path Labs, which has a major chain of diagnostic centres, also had to cough up Rs four lakh as damages for wrongly diagnosing a doctor as HIV positive. 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