Global firms answerable to consumer courts: SC

In our view,the protection provided under the CP Act to consumers is in addition to the remedies available under any other statute. It does not extinguish the remedies under another statute but provides an additional or alternative remedy, the court said.

Holding that they were not inclined to agree with the argument that the NCDRC had gone against international law,the judges said,Therefore,we do not find any legal infirmity in the National Commission exercising its jurisdiction as the same can be considered a court within the territory of a high contracting party for the purpose of Rule 29 of the Second Schedule to the CA Act and the Warsaw Convention.