Postal dept asked to pay Rs 3 lakh for opening joint PPF a/c
A consumer forum here has asked the postal department to pay Rs 3 lakh to a couple for opening their joint account under the Public Provident Fund Scheme.
Forum president Umesh Jhavalikar and member N D Kadam in their order stated that the Department of Posts had not apprised the complainants about the PPF regulations and permitted them to open a joint account, and since the last 13 years did not make any effort
to rectify the mistake.
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Postal department to pay for misguiding widow
The postal department in Thane was instructed to pay a compensation of Rs 1.50 lakh to complainant, Cynthia Josephine D’souza by the Thane District Consumer Redressal Forum for misguiding her into continuing her joint fixed deposit account with them, even after
the death of her husband. Admitting the widow’s complaint, the forum ordered the Postal Department to pay the compensation within a period of 60 days, or else pay interest at 9 per cent till the amount is paid.
In her complaint filed in 2010, D’souza, a Kolbad resident, told the forum that post her retirement as a school teacher in 2002, she invested a sum of Rs 4.50 lakh jointly with her husband in a lucrative scheme launched by the Postal Department called Monthly Income Scheme (MIS). After a few months, her husband Ronald, too, had made another investment along with the complainant for Rs 1.50 lakh in the same scheme. The couple would get the monthly interest in their account on the two FDs.
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Consumer court slaps fine on postal department
A district consumer court in Arunachal has imposed a fine on the postal department for negligence of duty in delivering an important document to a customer.
The court in East Siang district has directed the post and telegraph department to pay Rs 20,000 as compensation to Ratul Paboh of Oyan, who could not attend the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) preliminary examination because the
department failed to deliver a letter on time.
The letter, which was posted at Itanagar on December 12, 2009, was delivered to Paboh on March 25, 2010, after four months, a source said here on Thursday. Paboh’s residence at Oyan is only 26 km from the post office at Pasighat.
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