Mumbai, Oct 18 (UNI) The Bombay High Court today directed the Consumer Court Commissioner to dispose cases pending upto December 1999 by February 15, 2007.
A division bench comprising Justices R M Lodha and S A Bobde was hearing a public interest litigation filed by the Consumer Court Advocates Association alleging that more than 15000 cases were pending before the Consumer Court.
''Poor infrastructure is not the reason enough for such large pendency of cases,'' Justice Lodha remarked.
The court has also directed the Commissioner to file a status report on the pending cases by February 20 while the case will come up for further hearing on February 21.
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A division bench comprising Justices R M Lodha and S A Bobde was hearing a public interest litigation filed by the Consumer Court Advocates Association alleging that more than 15000 cases were pending before the Consumer Court.
''Poor infrastructure is not the reason enough for such large pendency of cases,'' Justice Lodha remarked.
The court has also directed the Commissioner to file a status report on the pending cases by February 20 while the case will come up for further hearing on February 21.
UNI ARM PM VD BST2036
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