Garments store booked by LMD in Jammu

Jammu and Kashmir's Legal Metrological Department today booked a leading garments store here for cheating customers on the pretext of discounted prices.
Acting on complaints of consumers, the LMD officers conducted detailed inspection of number of leading garments stores in Gandhi Nagar area today, official spokesman said.
To attract consumers various stores were offering attractive 'sales' offers up to 50 per cent on garments, said Manoj Prabhakar, Deputy Controller Consumer Protection.
According to complaints, consumers were offered 40 per cent discounts on Maximum Retail Price (MRP) but in fact they were overcharged in the name of VAT thereby not getting actual percentage of the discount offered, he said.

On inspection of 'KAPSON' store, it was found that the said dealer prominently offered 40 per cent discount on MRP marked but was charging 5 per cent additional VAT after deducting discounts thereby reducing the discounted price.
MRP on any product is a price which is inclusive of all taxes including VAT also and if the trader offers any discount on MRP, the reduced price also have the VAT component in it and any additional tax will automatically reduce the discount offered, he said.

The store was booked under relevant provisions of law and was directed to charge the consumers as agreed upon in lucrative sales offers, he said.

In another case, a leading kid garment store was booked for not declaring mandatory information like address of the manufacturer, PKD and MRP on the clothes.
The trader was using self made stickers of inflated MRP, he said.
On scrutinising the bills, it was found that the purchase price was very less and the dealer inflated the MRP by 60 per cent and then offered 30 per cent discounts to mislead the consumers on the pretext of 'Sale' offer. The seizure was made and the dealer was booked.