Mumbai: Imagine the plight of the father of the bride, who booked a wedding hall for his daughter's marriage only to find out at the nth minute that the hall he had booked was under renovation and the venue had to be shifted to another place.
This is what happened to a Navi Mumbai resident who had booked a marriage hall at Dadar but was shocked to learn that the banquet was under renovation. At the last minute, the marriage venue was shifted to Borivli.
The father, Kirankumar Mehta, has got some respite now, with the consumer court ordering the marriage hall owners to pay him Rs 80,000 as compensation.
According to Mehta, he had paid nearly Rs 49,000 in instalments, to book the marriage hall at Hindu Colony, Dadar. However, just days before the marriage, when he visited the venue, he was shocked to see the premises were under renovation.
In his complaint before the consumer court, Mehta claimed that the hall owners asked him not to cancel the booking and to proceed with the marriage in another portion of the premises. However, not willing to take the risk, Mehta cancelled the booking and reserved another hall at Borivli, at the last minute.
In defence, the owners of the hall argued before the court that they had never asked Mehta to cancel the booking and that he had cancelled it of his own accord.
Having considered the contentions, the court ordered the hall owners to pay Mehta nearly Rs 80,000 for subjecting him to mental agony brought on by the last-minute scramble to find another spot
