Supreme Court of India

Ethiopian Airlines v. Ganesh Narain Saboo

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Reported as [2011] 9 S.C.R. 936
Bench Dalveer Bhandari, Dr. Mukundakam Sharma and Anil R. Dave JJ.
Decided 9 August 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the impugned order E passed by the National Commission is untenable so far it held that the proceeding before the Consumer Forum does not come within the sweep of term "suit" because it is contrary to the judgment of the Constitution Bench of this court in Economic Transport Organization (supra).

Judgment, page 46

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - s. 86 - Suit against c foreign Rules, Ambassadors and Envoys - Complaint before the Consumer Fora against appellant-foreign airlines by respondent alleging deficiency in service - Applicability of s. 86 to proceedings before consumer fora - Case of appellant that being a foreign State or its instrumentality it could not be proceeded against under the Consumer Protection Act without obtaining proper permission of the Central Government - Held: Proceeding before the Consumer Forum comes within the sweep of term 'suit' - However, s. 86 is inapplicable - Consumer

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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