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KSo I bought a product from a company turns out blah blah blah long story.
Over and all, I have filed a consumer court case in district dispute redressal commission. First through eJagriti. And when it did not processed due to technical problem (as said by commission). I visited physically with 3 copies to the court and +3 opposite party.
> Background — I am a student in engineering and has no idea of any legal thing.
> My experiences —
1. Learnt everything from basics on how to write index, proforma, memo, complaint, affidavit by own. No I don’t have ant lawyer. Doing it on my own.
2. I have collected every evidences and tried to put it all in the documents. Irrespective how small they are and how much weightage in the case. That increased the number of pages of the complaint.
I had no idea court needs 3 copies of it and 3 to the opponent. That printing only costed me some ₹450 (it had color photographs as well).
3. Once reached the commission to submit it physically. They asked me to tie all with a thread. AGAIN. I had no idea, took 30 min to do it. And once came back to office, they asked no, tie three separetly and other 3 separatly.
4. Then they asked, where are the envelops? Only you need to buy and paste the postal stamps for the destination. (Now my files were already heavy)! It costed ₹145 per opponent party x3) for stamp duty. A4 envelop charges 6₹ each. (Indian post offices accepts only CASH!!!! No UPI)
5. Once came back to commission office, they asked to open the threads and tie the envelops too with it. So I need to open and tie these too.
6. Then they gone through the documents for corrections. I was in fear that what if there is correction now! Already given almost a day between this office and shops.
7. Then the registrar signed it and I got the hearing date for next month.
Just wanted to share it here. It was my first time so obvious I don’t know the process and rules and regulations.
But aisi there is no plateform which can tell these things in advance.
The office people are also habitual of advocates filing the case so they were also first time telling someone, okay now go there, now sign here, now do this and that.
More importantly, I was in T-shirt and Jeans and it was mentioned at the entrance, no jeans tshirt are allowed!!!
Anyways. Let’s see.
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SEvery junior advocate has gone through this before. Filing a case is a very time consuming and tedious process.
What we learn in college is useless compared to what’s practiced in courts. This is why it’s compulsory in almost all colleges for students to do a minimum number of internships during the course as a course requirement.
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UStill, in the digital age, it is unreasonable to still require so many physical copies and the formalities of tying it with the thread etc. One physical copy would still be reasonable. The rest could just be done as digital copies. Also, such details should be listed out somewhere for people to be able to follow. There’s this blog named Zen Citizen which has recently started providing details of various procedures. Perhaps OP or others on this forum could contribute to that blog or start a similar blog.
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UYes, jeans is not allowed. I had created a post earlier on this – https://www.reddit.com/user/iamjkdn/comments/1iq3h95/steps_for_filing_consumer_complaint/
You can check the last para.
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UThis is one sub I don’t shit talk. People come here with genuine problems. I prefer to help them instead of wasting there time.
Anycase, having a dress code is a standard practise in any court anywhere in the world. Nothing to do with us being in 1925 or 2025. In fact, since it is 2025, and having access to so many resources apart from internet and chatgpt, it’s surprising how ridiculous it is to post something like that without taking a moment to search on this on your own.
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ABe prepared for adjournments but stick with your guns. Corporations count on folks just giving up. Make suckers pay for every dime you have spent on the case. Keep receipts
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KThat’s true actually.
Because,
1. The company didn’t even bother to respond to two reminders sent via NCH.
2. Didn’t respond to the legal notice sent by me through a registered post and in electronic form on their mail.
3. I got a similar case from 2013 where almost the same situation, the company first reply was, that the complaint is baseless.
Even though the verdict was to replace the product, 2.5k litigation cost and 5k compensation.12 years later. My product cost is high too and I’m demanding a higher compensation.
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KBecause if you just Google that company’s name on the consumer case forum on the date of hearing or later in the case, it will show up the documents having my address and number.
Like Mr Original4444 vs Reddit Pvt Ltd
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UOhh waah didn’t know that , also just to ask from your knowledge suppose i want to File real case against one offline vendor and one online (UrbanCompany) and it a heft amount , and have all proofs , chats , videos etc
And both are in lacs amount of damages. One offline vendor case is 2 years ago and UrbanCompany is 6 months old, I know I can surely file the case any day any moment but I don’t want to show myself on hearings etc , i don’t have any issue regarding hiring top notch lawyers but I want to avoid showing myself on these fucking dates is this possible? Also I heard when you file a consumer court case they first send 3 months notice to talk to the victim and sort it out by returning his every single penny else this goes on trial and most of the cases are sorted within that period only. True?
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K1. I’m not from a legal background so I really don’t have an idea about all you asked.
2. From what I know (learnt during the process), you need to file a case within 2 years of the date of incident (on which you realize you got scammed). Like purchased a laptop and it was broken etc.
However, there should be some procedure if you want to file after 2 years. I have no idea.3. Yes you can hire a lawyer who will do everything for you. You need not to visit the court at all (as far as I know).
4. Yes the court orders the company to pay the litigation cost, if you win.
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UMan every gov portal is just so bad. I dont want to go offline [https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceIndia/comments/1j9ay4l/has_anyone_else_had_issues_with_ejagriti_portal/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceIndia/comments/1j9ay4l/has_anyone_else_had_issues_with_ejagriti_portal/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
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