Posted on 02/04/2006 10:57:11 AM PST by QwertyKPH
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 4: A city consumer court has asked a leading beverage company to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation to a buyer who found a dead fly in a whisky bottle of the company. "The very sight of a dead fly in such drink causes trauma to a consumer particularly when he detects the foreign object after consuming some quantity of the drink," observed the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission headed by President Justice J D Kapoor and Member Ruminita Mittal. Justice Kapoor rejected the contention of the company, Shaw Wallace distilleries, that there was no proof to show that the whisky harmed the consumer. "Mere absence of any medical evidence as to the effect having a drink containing a dead fly can not absolve the company from selling goods which are meant for drinking that contained a foreign object i.e. dead fly," the Commission said.
Ordering compensation, the Commission added, "the trauma sometime is such that one may vomit spontaneously and this not only results in physical injury but mental injury also and therefore such a consumer is entitled to be compensated for the mental agony." "It was a case of negligence while manufacturing and bottling the drink as dead insect has found its way during the process of bottling," observed the Commission while deciding the appeal of the liquor company, which it has filed against a district consumer forum's verdict.
Earlier, a district forum, on a complaint of one Mohan Singh who had found a dead fly in a bottle of Director's special brand of whiskey, bought from an authorized shop of the company, has asked it to pay Rs.77,000 as compensation.
Partly allowing the appeal, the Commission slashed the fine by awarding compensation of Rs.5,000 to the consumer inclusive of the cost of litigation.
"In the instant case, it was a solitary bottle in which one dead fly was found whereas the drink was neither of poor quality that may caused potential hazards, hence the fine was on the higher side," said Justice Kapoor decreasing the fine.
I have never had a beer in India I liked. There was one called black eagle or something and it was horrible! Tasted like they brewed it in oil drums.
Having said that I only have 2 more things to add. One is that they have a Rum called Old Monk Rum and it is great, once you get through your nightmare. I was warned about this effect and sure enough there I am dreaming about throwing grenades at people I love in a supermarket. Once that nightmare passed I enjoyed the rum on a regular basis. It only cost about $5 a bottle and we got it free during the hotel's happy hour.
The second thing is if you have to choke down some Indian beer and don't really like the taste of it, try this, put about 1 ounce of sprite in it. It makes it drinkable. This was shown to our group by one of the Hotel's female managers.
Ok here is an India bonus only for FreeRepublic: Some good indian music to listen to while eating is available on a CD entitled, Dikshitar. Holy smokes we laughed our @sses of when we read the CD cover. It was so funny and embarasing. The chef thought we were laughing at some food and it was just the name Dikshitar that we were laughing at. I laughed for about 30 minutes. You know the kind of laugh you have in School when the teacher tells you to stop laughing and you can't. Sweat busting laugh.
Guess you had to be there
You would think one of them would have seen it.
An Englishman, An Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar and order a beer.
Some time later, three flies fly in and plink, plank, plunk! - they land in the three beer glasses.
the Englishmand says "Ewww!" and pushes a way the beer glass.
The Irishman shrugs and picks the fly out, flicks it away and continues drinking.
The Scotsman picks the fly up, squeezes it, and says "SPIT IT OUT, YA WEE BASTID!"
You forgot the Al Sharptons and Jesse "Shakedown" Jacksons types.
The mexicans put dead worms in some of their bottles, what's the big deal!
That beverage co. would have had a hugh problem if the consumer had found one of their sacred cows in the bottle.
A stinking little fly won't drink much.
Right!
No...India is not an Islamic nation (the muzzies make up 14% of India's population though).
Old Monk MEGA BUMP......your post brought back fond memories of days spent with Old Monk when I was an undergrad in India (many moons ago).
Their professional relationship continued for a couple of years, culminating in the BBC Radio series Pet and Mr. Piano, the last time they worked together
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