Grahakjago (S.K.Virmani)©

Unethical business practices by telecom service providers in life time validity plans subscribed by prepaid category of mobile subscribers- An article as titled above was brought out on 28/12/2018 in this blog indicating unethical business practices of the Telecom Service Providers on their prepaid and postpaid telecom connections. The link to the article is: https://skvirmani-jagograhak.blogspot.com/2018/12/unethical-business-practices-by-telecom.html The telecom service providers had launched a scheme “life time validity” plans for mobile subscribers wherein the mobile users were being offered free incoming calls for which no recharge for its validity was required against one time charge. It was ranging from various amounts varying from company to company, the most prominent being Rs. 999/-. These plans were announced by telecom companies more than a decade back. The subscribers were required to recharge with talk time value recharge vouchers if the subscribers wish t...

I have brought two articles on the subject of misleading advertisement by EMI Free car Pvt. Ltd as:                                                                                        Misleading Advertisement by EMI Free Car Ltd   1.    Points that need to be taken care of while dealing with www.emifreecar.com http://jagograhak.blogspot.in/2014/05/points-that-need-to-be-taken-care-of.html 2.  EMI Free Car Pvt. Ltd. has not got any permission to display advertisement on the cars/ vehicles- Revealed under RTI- Perspective buyers need to be careful.   http://jagograhak.blogspot.in/2014/07/emi-free-car-pvt-ltd-has-not-g...

An article titled " Is "Ritu Wears" adapting to Ethical Business Practices? probably "No". appeared in this blog on 09/02/2014 and another article titled Why VAT being charged by Aditya Birla Nuvo on discounted MRP when MRP is inclusive of all taxes? . on 10/02/2014. This article pertains to the illegal charging of VAT by the many traders including Ritu Wears including Park Avenue, Aditya Birla etc. in a case where the traders are giving discount as %age of MRP. Since the MRP is always inclusive of VAT and no additional amount is chargeable, the discounted prices are also MRP and are inclusive of VAT. Any additional charging of VAT is not chargeable and it is felt that one of the VAT is being pocketed by the traders. In that scenario there is a possibility of tax evasion. The issue was also brought to the notice of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Govt. of India. Department of Consumer Affairs, Govt. of India have requested State Controllers of Legal Metr...