Dear Mr. Kumar,
I have perused your message posted 10 days back on this Forum and responses thereto. Through said post you have narrated your hardship and agonies caused due to poor and irregular services of BSNL at your end and also have described your annoyance for not getting any response from them on your RTI application, even.
Accordingly you have sought legal advise in pursuance to your intent to sue them in competent Consumer Court as against their inefficient services so that they are being penalized and a strict action be taken against them as well their erring officials.
The consumer courts, with effect to the Office Memorandum dated 4th February'2014 of DOT (Department of Telecommunications) vide its No. 2-17/2013-Policy-I ; now has been empowered to exercise its jurisdiction to decide the consumer disputes related to telecom / mobile service providers, such as Airtel, Idea, Vodafone and Reliance Communications etc. including BSNL,who randomly use to levy fine/interests/over billing/charges upon Consumers for no fault and even errs for their irregular and/or discontinuation of service.
In response to your message, as above; I firmly opine under the facts and circumstances narrated by you and with effect to aforesaid Notification, that you may very well sue BSNL and its erring Officials causing stated hardship to you in the competent Consumer Court seeking there through an appropriate award of compensation in lieu of your losses, being incurred on account of your business loss, harassment, agonies etc.
Now, through your message, here above, also you have sought the legal assistance for the purpose to sue. And with this regard, I invite you to visit www.powertoconsumer.in and forward your case to it seeking thereby legal advise/solution for the purpose.
Said website has been launched to empower the Consumers with their Rights and to provide free legal advise, solution and the process to sue erring traders/service providers in respective Consumer Court (s).
Feel free to approach www.powertoconsumer.in for your instant purpose.
Thanks,
SHIVESH SINHA,
Advocate Cum Legal Adviser to www.powertoconsumer.in