CORE Centre ENewsletter

Supported By, DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Govt. of India
Volume : 54	www.core.nic.in	January 2009

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In This Issue:

Consumer Focus
Consumer News
Gist Of Judgments
CORE Progress Status

Consumer Focus: "Human Rights "

The history of human rights covers thousands of years and draws upon religious, cultural, philosophical and legal developments throughout recorded history. Several ancient documents and later religions and philosophies included a variety of concepts that may be considered to be human rights.

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Consumer News

Bubblegum company told to pay Rs.300,000 compensation Jan 2009
builders fined Rs. 27.3 lakhs for not handing over an apartment on time Dec 2008
Supreme Court refuses to halt doctor's trial for patient's death Dec. 2008
Delhi consumer court asks travel firm to pay compensation, Dec 2008
Nine years later, court orders damages to Kandahar passengers, Dec 2008
Vehicle insurance can be claimed even after ownership change: Court, Dec 2008

Gist Of Judgments

Court: NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTE REDRESSAL COMMISSION
Appeal No: - 97 of 2005, Karnataka GarageVs. State Bank of Mysore, Judgment Text
Court : DELHI STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION
Appeal No:- 367 of 2005, Surya Food and Agro Limited (Appellant) Vs Gulrej Ali, Judgment Text
Court : SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Appeal No:- (Civil) 2325 of 2006 (Arising Out of Slp (C) No.18892 of 2005), Haryana State Electricity Board Vs Mam Chand , Judgment Text
Court: NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTE REDRESSAL COMMISSION
Appeal No:- 2640 & 2641 of 2005,
New India Assurance Company Limited, vs. Vasant Rao, Judgment Text

CORE Progress Status, Dec'08

Highlights:
Over 1.53 Crores hits received from 50 countries across the globe on www.core.nic.in till date
Over 7.31 Lakh Visits
17095 Subscribers of CORE Centre E-Newsletter
More than 1.18 lakh of web pages of contents of different consumer related issues e.g. Caselaws, Acts, regulations, Gist of Judgments, Test Reports, Consumer Studies, Articles etc. are uploaded on CORE website.
More than 54 Thousand Complaints received from March 2005 to December 2008 from all parts of India and also from abroad
Total 3713 complaints (30.7% of all complaints handled) were resolved by CORE Centre from April 2008 to December 2008.
In the month of December 2008 CORE has received 1644 Complaints, in which 491 Complaints were resolved and 70 Complaints were closed.
Hindi version of CORE Centre website has been launched with selected links. More than 25 thousands hits are being registered per month in the Hindi section of CORE website.
Arrangements made for more regional languages such as Telgu, Malayalam & Gujarati being added.

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