Commercial Purpose Archives

What is the ambit of “Commercial Purpose” defined under Consumer Protection Act?: Supreme Court answers

Supreme Court, while going by the ordinary meaning of ‘commercial purpose’, said that ‘Commercial’ denotes “pertaining to commerce”. However, the Explanation clarifies that even purchases in certain situations for ‘commercial purposes’ would not take within its sweep the purchaser out of the definition of expression ‘consumer’

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCDRC | Whether a company purchasing commercial space for its office is “consumer” under Consumer Protection Act, 2019? Commission answers

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): Dinesh Singh (Presiding Member), expressed that whether, for a particular purpose, a company is a ‘consumer’,

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NGT | No absolute right to extract groundwater for commercial purposes; Extracting groundwater is per se a criminal offence

National Green Tribunal (NGT): The Coram of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel (Chairperson) and Justice S.P. Wangdi (Judicial Member) and Dr Nagin Nanda (Expert

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | Lawyer using domestic space as his chamber will not be charged with tariff in “commercial category”

Calcutta High Court: Shekhar B. Saraf, J., while allowing the present petition held that, “Lawyer using a domestic space as his chamber