Circuit bench to hear consumer pleas in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) will organise a circuit bench in city to hear cases of consumer disputes pertaining to the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The circuit bench will be from January 28 to February 8 at Telangana State Food Commission Conference Hall in Adarsh Nagar. Consumer disputes and grievances under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, will be taken before the bench.

The circuit bench will take consumer cases of one crore and more also. New cases also can be placed before the Bench in this time period. The purpose of the circuit bench at different places is to ensure quick justice at the doorsteps of the consumers, so that they need not have to travel to Delhi for Redressal of their grievances. The national commission has so far held circuit bench sittings at Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Cochin, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and Kolkata. Justice R.K. Agarwal will head the Bench and undertake the hearings of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.