UNION OF INDIA Vs. ALPESH CHANDRAKANT DAGLI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal arises from order dated 27th January, 2003 rendered by the learned Ahmedabad City Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum in Complaint No. 258/1996. Impugned order reads as under:

(2.) WE have heard the learned Advocates for the parties. We have gone through the impugned order.

(3.) IT was the complainant s case before the learned Forum that the complainant Mr. Alpesh Chandrakant Dagli dealing in advertising business had passport in question issued on 18th October, 1993, but there was a mistake in not mentioning expiry date thereof in the passport with the result that the complainants had to return from Bangkok as the authorities there did not permit them to move in Bangkok on account of the aforesaid error of omission in the passport. Thus the complainants had to spend for the tickets from India to Bangkok and immediately back from Bangkok to India in the month of July, 1995. Notice correspondence ensued between the parties. Complainant alleged that there was not only error of omission on the part of the Passport Authority but the second opponent Senior Inspector of Police, Airport Branch dealing with immigration failed to notice the error and permitted the complainant and his wife to fly to Bangkok. The complainant, therefore, approached the learned Forum with prayer for compensation.