PG booking amount refund, Do I have any legal option?

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May 7, 2026 at 6:22 am

In March, I was assigned an internship in City A, and I had booked a PG by the end of March with the booking amount being Rs. 6000. The PG owner had specified before the payment that this amount is non-refundable, and I had verbally agreed to it on call because I’d liked the PG and had no intention towards changing

However, during the start of April my location was changed by the company to City B, causing a cancellation of that PG. I’ve been on various calls with the person ever since, and throughout the entire month of April his story was, “Once someone else rents that bed, I’ll refund you your booking amount, and someone usually rents during the last week of the month, so wait uptil then”

Now it’s the 7th Of May, and his story is that while the bed has been filled, since he has lost that month’s rent, he will “talk to the dad”, pg owner is his dad, and try to talk and see if some partial refund is possible or not (he hasn’t been firm on whether this partial refund routue would even be possible or not)

Do I have any legal option? can NCH help? After searching online I found this term called “Unjust Enrichment” under the Consumer Protection Act 2019, would that be applicable in this scenario?

edit – for the past 30 days I’ve been trying to “sweet talk” and extract the money from him, but he always says “I’m trying my best, and I always pick up your call others would have not even picked up the call”, but nothing concrete has happened uptil yet

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May 7, 2026 at 6:29 am

I think you should forget about it. Like you said that the amount was non refundable..

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