Failure to print price on books constitutes unfair trade practice: District Consumer Forum orders Penguin Books to pay Rs. 10,000 as compensation
"As the opposite party failed to establish the reasons as to why they have not printed the price of the book on the book supplied to the complainant, it clearly assumes adoption of unfair trade practice for which they are held liable", the forum ruled
A three-member Bench of a Hyderabad District Consumer Forum recently found that the failure of Penguin Books India to print the price of books being sold amounted to unfair trade practice.