TNSCTC’s Unfair Trade Practice in Nilgris: Madras High Court Pulls Up

Ooty: The Madras High court has pulled up the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Tnstc) due to charges of unfair trade practices in the Tnstc buses being undergone in the Nilgiris and instructed the state corporation to provide answers to the Coonoor Consumer Protection Association (CCPA) on this dispute to take the essential course of action.

Tnstc to comply express buses those Charge excess fare in Nilgiris district

Stating this, Mr.S. Manogaran, president of the CCPA, who is the petitioner in the litigation with regards to unfair trade practices, said that the Madras High court in its contemporary order on his petition had referred to the previous order of the Tnstc passed on 13-9-2018 on unfair trade practices as well as the order passed by the Regional Transport Officer (RTO) at Ooty, wherein the RTO had particularly stated that no permit was offered by the RTO authorizing the Tnstc to comply express buses those Charge excess fare in Nilgiris district.

The High court inquired the proceedings of the RTO in Ooty, which was interfaced to Tnstc offices at both at Ooty and Coimbatore, directing the Tnstc to offer a relevant answer as to what was the apparent policy decision taken by it for charging excess Charges, and held that the Tnstc office was yet to provide any remark to the RTO at Ooty.

Direction to Tnstc

Respectively, the High court, in its order passed on February 15, particularly gave a direction to Tnstc that it must offer an essential answer, as to the policy decision taken and the grounds for charging additional fare in buses to the RTO at Ooty and further to CCPA, he specified. He further added that the CCPA will go ahead on the problem later hearing from the Tnstc.

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