New Delhi: Amity Business School has been directed by a consumer forum to pay Rs 1.10 lakh as compensation to a student for misleading her that its course was recognised by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
"The candidate should be adequately compensated for mental agony for having spent few years in obtaining the degree which was represented to be recognised by a government authority but later on found to be un-recognised and was useless for future prospects," the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission said in its order.
The order came on an appeal filed by Gunvinder Kaur Bhatia, who did a Post Graduate Diploma in International Business Programme in Noida-based Amity, asking for the enhancement of the Rs 1 lakh compensation amount awarded by a District Consumer Forum.
The Bench headed by Justice J D Kapoor and member Rumnittra Mittal said, "unfair trade practice saddles the person who makes such representation with the liability of compensating the consumer as to the loss or injury suffered by the consumer due to such misrepresentation."
The Commission, enhancing the award amount by Rs 10,000, said that in such cases it was very diffcult to assess the loss on highly hypothetical basis.
As per Bhatia, she took admission in the PGDIB Programme of the Amity after being informed that it was recognised by the AICTE. Later, she found the course was not recognised.
The Forum, allowing her complaint, had asked Amity to pay the compensation and directed it to place advertisements in two national dailies that its PGDIB course was un-recognised so that the other aspirants know the fact.
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