Firm told to pay rs25k for making baseless plaint

In a recent judgment, the state Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum directed a complainant to pay Rs25,000 to a container shipping line, P&O Nedlloyd, for making groundless claims that it

had not delivered a consignment at the right port. In a recent judgment, the state Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum directed a complainant to pay Rs25,000 to a container shipping line,

P&O Nedlloyd, for making groundless claims that it had not delivered a consignment at the right port. The complainant M/s Mclloyd and Co, represented by Ghanshyam Vadodaria, imports

plastic waste and scrap from M/s Scrap in Carrollton, USA. In a deal signed in 2005, the consignee had promised to ship the consignment to the complainant for which it had approached the

shipping firm. The consignee had asked the firm to send the goods to the Nhava Sheva Port in Mumbai. According to the complainant, it had asked for the consignment to be delivered to ICD

Sachin in Surat, but as the Bill of Lading  mentioned the Mumbai port, the consignment was delivered there. After the consignment was delivered, the complainant had requested the firm to

ship it to Surat, but it refused to do so claiming that the required destination was not mentioned when the consignment was released from USA. The complainant then approached the forum. The

forum held that the complainant had no evidence to prove its claim and dismissed the plea. _@plotlikar_