A consumer court has issued notice to the chief executive of H&A Generators for September 11 on a suit seeking damages of Rs835,000 from the company for supplying a man with a second-hand generator when he had paid for a new one.
Petitioner Tahir Shehbaz told the court that on June 22, 2012, he had paid Saleem Qadir, the owner of H&A Generators, Rs300,000 for a 22.5KvA generator.
The respondent, he said, had later told him that there was a shortage of new machines and he was temporarily installing a second-hand generator at his house. The petitioner said that he had been promised that the new generator would arrive in a few days.
He submitted that the second-hand generator quickly went out of order, at which the respondent sent repairmen to fix it. But the repairman, he said, told him that the engine was badly damaged and needed to be replaced.
The petitioner said that he called in other repairmen, who replaced a few parts and got the generator up and running again. They charged him Rs5,000 for labour and Rs5,000 for the spare parts, he said.
Shehbaz said that meanwhile, he kept asking the shop to send him his new generator, but they did not do so, nor did they return the money.
He sought a total of Rs835,000 in damages, including the Rs300,000 he paid for the generator, Rs500,000 as compensation for stress, Rs25,000 for lawyer’s fees and Rs10,000 for the cost of repairing the second-hand generator.
This correspondent made several calls to Saleem Qadir to get his side of the story, but he was not available for comment.
Man accuses son of conning him out of property
An additional district and sessions judge has sought comments from the North Cantt station house officer on a petition filed by a man seeking a case against his son for allegedly defrauding him of his property.
Petitioner Syed Tahir submitted that he had worked in Saudi Arabia for 25 years before recently moving back to Pakistan.
Tahir said that a few days ago, his son Zeeshan had asked him to sign some documents so he could get a landline telephone installed at the house.
The petitioner said that he was not an educated man and had signed the documents without going through them. He had later found out that he had signed documents transferring the property solely to his son.
He said that he had three daughters and they would be left without an inheritance should his son take the entire property.
The petitioner said that Zeeshan was now threatening to kill him if he did not leave the house.
He said that he had approached the North Cantt SHO to lodge a complaint, but he had not been entertained.
He asked the court to direct the station house officer to register a case.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2013.