Hotel can't pass the buck on if a car is stolen from its parking lot: Panel

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission orders Hotel Taj Mansingh to pay Rs 28 million to United India Insurance Company, which had insured the vehicle

A hotel can not shed responsibility if a car goes missing from the parking lot by just mentioning 'at owner's risk', the apex consumer commission ordered on Monday.

If a car goes missing from a hotel's parking lot, it should be deemed as negligence on the part of the establishment, a single-member bench consisting of M Shreesha said in its order. The verdict was delivered in a case in which a Maruti Zen had been stolen from the parking lot of Taj Mansingh Hotel in Delhi in 1998. 

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ordered the hotel to pay Rs