New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Soft drinks major Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay a sum of Rs 7,000 as compensation to a businessman who found a dead fly inside a sealed Limca bottle.
"It stands satisfactorily proved that the Limca bottle purchased by the complainant businessman from the retailer, manufactured by Hindustan Cola Beverages, was found to contain a dead fly and in the circumstances a case of unfair trade practice is clearly made out," a District Consumer Redressal Forum said.
The forum, headed by president M P Mehndiratta, passed the order on a complaint by Mohan Lal, a city entrepreneur engaged in the business of manufacturing tin containers. The retailer too was made liable to pay part of the compensation.