Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 21: The Department of Legal Metrology today booked two leading garment stores at Gandhi Nagar area for cheating consumers on the pretext of sale offers.
According to Manoj Prabhakar, Deputy Controller Consumer Protection, there were complaints by some consumers that various stores were offering attractive sale offers up to 50 per cent discount on garments but in fact overcharging in the name of VAT thereby not giving actual percentage of the discount offered.
On inspection of Kapson store, it was found that the said dealer had prominently offered 40 percent discount on MRP marked on the Sweaters but was charging 5 per cent additional VAT after deducting discounts thereby reducing the discounted price. According to the Deputy Controller, MRP on any product is a price which is inclusive of all taxes including VAT also and if the trader offers any discount on MRP, the reduced price also has the VAT component in it and any additional tax will automatically reduce the discount offered.
In practicability the consumer is deceived by offering apparently 40 percent discount but in fact it is less. The store was booked under relevant provisions of law and directed to charge the consumers as agreed upon in lucrative sales offers.
In another case, one leading kid garment store Cute Camps was booked for not declaring mandatory declarations like address of the manufacturer, PKD and MRP on the clothes of children. The trader was using self made stickers of inflated MRP. On scrutinizing the bills, it was found that the purchase price was very less and the dealer inflated the MRP by 60 percent and then offered 30 percent discounts to mislead the consumers on the pretext of Sale offer. The seizure was made and the dealer was booked.
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