Didn’t Serve Sambhar with Masala Dosa, Rs 3500 Fine on Bihar Restaurant

Patna: A consumer court imposed a fine of Rs 3500 on a restaurant for not serving sambhar with masala dosa. Namak Restaurant of Buxar, which sells its masala dosa at Rs 140 will have to pay up this Rs 3,500 penalty.

The consumer court has given the restaurant 45 days time to pay the fine otherwise 8 per cent interest will be levied on the fine money.

A lawyer named Manish Gupta dragged the Buxar restaurant to consumer court for not serving sambhar with its masala dosa.

On August 15, 2022, the lawyer had ordered the Namak Restaurant to get a special masala dosa worth Rs 140 packed.

Later at home, he discovered that sambhar, which is generally served with dosa, was missing in the packet. Manish traveled to the restaurant to enquire about the missing sambhar.

As the restaurant owner did not accept the mistake and allegedly misbehaved with the lawyer, he served a legal notice to the restaurant. When there was no response from the owner, Manish filed a complaint with the District Consumer Commission.

After 11 months, a division bench of Consumer Commission chairman Ved Prakash Singh and member Varun Kumar found the restaurant guilty, and imposed a fine of Rs 3,500 in two parts — Rs 1,500 as litigation cost, and Rs 2,000 as basic fine.