Karnataka High Court
LEGAL SUBJECT
Consumer Protection
Judgment analyses where this is the main or secondary subject.Latest analyses
30 ARTICLES
Supreme Court
Homebuyer cannot claim builder refund of unpaid bank loan; Supreme Court awards 12% interest on his own payments
The Borrower booked an apartment in the Builder’s Hyderabad project for approximately ₹2.31 crore and paid ₹51,11,576 from his own funds. The Bank sanctioned a ₹2 crore housing loan and disbursed ₹1,68,80,531 to the B...4 MIN READ↗
Calcutta High Court
Developer’s claims outside a consumer dispute can go to arbitration despite buyer’s consumer case, Calcutta High Court rules
The parties entered into an Agreement for Sale dated 23 July 2014, later substituting the agreed plot and revising the consideration.3 MIN READ↗
Calcutta High Court
Consumer fora may refuse to condone inordinate appellate delay where negligence and lack of due diligence are established.
The opposite parties filed a consumer complaint in 2016 alleging deficiency in service.3 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
Airtel’s packaged SIM cards and wireless phones fall under Legal Metrology rules, Karnataka High Court holds
The Legal Metrology Inspector inspected a Bharati Airtel agent’s premises and seized pre-packed GSM fixed wireless phones (FWPs), alleging that the packages lacked the declarations required by the Standards of Weights...3 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
CCPA fined Asus ₹5 lakh for advertising VG259QR monitor as G-Sync compatible; Karnataka High Court notes enforcement action
The petitioner purchased an ASUS VG259QR gaming monitor, alleging that it had been represented as NVIDIA G-Sync compatible but did not meet his expectations.2 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
A writ of mandamus cannot compel interest absent an enforceable legal or contractual entitlement.
The petitioner purchased property at an auction conducted by the respondent-Bank in 2006. Although the sale deed was registered in his favour that year, possession was delivered only on 7 March 2011, due to pending pr...2 MIN READ↗
Delhi High Court
Article 226 will not disturb interim consumer directions preserving liability for final adjudication.
Respondent No. 1 purchased a Mercedes-Benz car from Respondent No. 2 in 2014 and filed a consumer complaint in 2016 alleging, among other things, that the car pulled to the left, its steering wheel made noise while tu...2 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
Members whose term expires and reappointment is rejected have no vested right to continue.
The respondent was appointed as a Member of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Shivamogga, for a five-year term beginning 3 March 2020. Her term ended on 3 March 2025, and the Selection Committee did...2 MIN READ↗
Madras High Court
Outstanding payments for power supplied must be adjusted against consumption charges before electricity disconnection.
The petitioner sought a writ of mandamus restraining the respondents from collecting current-consumption charges, demand charges, or arrears until they paid or adjusted an alleged outstanding sum of ₹27,58,049, stated...2 MIN READ↗
Chhattisgarh High Court
Article 227 interference with delay-condonation decisions requires perversity, jurisdictional error, or manifest illegality.
The respondent’s consumer complaint against the petitioner-contractor was decided ex parte by the District Consumer Forum on 26 July 2019, which directed payment of ₹5,39,000 with interest, compensation and costs, and...2 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
Consumer commissions must consider applications to cancel execution warrants under Section 70(2) CrPC.
The petitioners, former office-bearers, had been held jointly and severally liable under an award dated 17 May 2025 in Consumer Complaint No. 278 of 2024.2 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
Consumer commissions must consider applications seeking recall of execution warrants under Section 70(2) CrPC.
The petitioners had been held jointly and severally liable with others under an award dated 17 May 2025 of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Belagavi.2 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
A judgment-debtor cannot re-agitate in execution liability conclusively determined in the original proceedings.
The petitioner was arrayed as an opponent in Consumer Complaint No. 2704/2018 in his capacity as General Manager of Belagavi Liberal Credit Souhardha Co-operative Ltd. The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissi...2 MIN READ↗
Patna High Court
Writ relief over electricity billing disputes declined where an efficacious statutory grievance remedy exists.
The petitioner alleged that his electricity meter was removed on 27 October 2020 because it was defective and that a replacement meter was installed only on 28 November 2021. He sought correction of the bills for that...2 MIN READ↗
Delhi High Court
Administrative processes and unsupported counsel-blame do not satisfactorily explain a government body’s appellate delay.
The respondent was allotted a residential plot in Faridabad in 2016.2 MIN READ↗
Madras High Court
Microplastics warning labels must remain on bottled water, sugar and salt, Madras High Court rules
In the underlying writ petition, the Madras High Court directed that labels on plastic/PET-bottled water state, “This water may contain Micro/Nano Plastics,” and that labels on plastic-packaged sugar and salt carry a...3 MIN READ↗
Chhattisgarh High Court
Article 227 review cannot disturb concurrent rejection of delay condonation absent perversity or jurisdictional error.
The insured motorcycle’s registered owner, Sahdev Markam, died in an accident on 24 February 2021. His claim under the policy’s compulsory personal-accident cover was repudiated, and the respondents’ consumer complain...2 MIN READ↗
Madras High Court
Administrative consideration of the same grievance was permitted only after withdrawal of the pending consumer complaint.
The petitioner sought a writ of mandamus directing removal of a water pipeline laid in his patta land in Survey Nos. 53/19 and 53/20, payment of compensation, and criminal and legal action against certain officials2 MIN READ↗
Bombay High Court
A review order adversely affecting a party cannot be passed without notice and hearing.
The respondents, who had booked a flat developed by the petitioners, obtained a partly favourable order from the Maharashtra State Consumer Commission.2 MIN READ↗
Chhattisgarh High Court
Article 227 petitions are not entertained when a statutory consumer appeal is available.
Respondent No. 3 obtained an order from the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Bemetara, directing a refund of his deposit with accrued interest, jointly and severally against the petitioner and PACL Ind...2 MIN READ↗
Calcutta High Court
A State Consumer Commission must decide complaints with the President and at least one Member.
The opposite parties entered into an agreement dated 8 June 2001 with the developer for purchase of a 1,135 sq. ft. flat for ₹9,01,000 and claimed that they had paid the entire consideration and obtained possession, b...3 MIN READ↗
Calcutta High Court
A licensee’s nexus investigation cannot suspend statutory timelines for issuing a new connection estimate.
Respondent No. 2, a tenant receiving electricity through an existing connection standing in another person’s name, applied for an independent electricity connection on 28 June 2004. CESC withheld the application on th...4 MIN READ↗
Delhi High Court
Writ jurisdiction may be declined where the identical issue is pending before the Supreme Court under an efficacious statutory appeal.
Cloud 9 Projects Private Limited filed a writ petition challenging orders passed by a single-member Bench of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), including the NCDRC order dated 7 May 2024 and...4 MIN READ↗
Supreme Court
False stock declarations entitled insurer to reject entire fire claim, Supreme Court holds
M/s. Hemkund Duplex and Board Pvt. Ltd. insured its stock, buildings, plant and machinery with New India Assurance Company Ltd. under two fire policies.4 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
Direct-selling businesses are not per se outside deposit-protection laws; transaction substance determines statutory applicability.
The petitioner, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, operates an e-commerce-based direct-selling business through independent representatives, selling products such as water purifiers, nutritional pro...5 MIN READ↗
Calcutta High Court
Writ jurisdiction should not be invoked before raising maintainability before the Consumer Commission.
The petitioner challenged the order dated 15 January 2026 passed by the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Kolkata–III, in Consumer Complaint No. DC/AB3/315/CC/3/2026, whereby the Commission admitted the...3 MIN READ↗
Punjab and Haryana High Court
The free-look period cannot defeat mis-selling claims where policy terms were never supplied.
The petitioner-insurer challenged, under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission’s order dated 07.11.2025, which affirmed concurrent findings of the District and S...3 MIN READ↗
APTEL
Consumers in arrears cannot claim statutory compensation for a licensee’s failure to meet performance standards.
The appellants were agricultural electricity consumers of Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. (“distribution licensee”) and used the connection for a private tubewell.4 MIN READ↗
Karnataka High Court
Consumer commissions can prosecute directors responsible for a company’s non-compliance, Karnataka High Court rules
Respondent No. 2’s Consumer Complaint No. 494/2016 against M/s. Sanchaya Land and Estate Pvt. Ltd. was allowed by the District Consumer Commission on 15 March 2017.5 MIN READ↗No articles match these filters.