(Times Now)
The apex consumer commission has ordered Indian Oil Corporation to pay Rs 30-lakh compensation to two minor siblings, who were injured and whose parents died in a fire accident due to LPG leak from the firm’s cylinder in 2005. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) said it was pained at the “insensitive attitude of the country’s one of the biggest monopolistic public sector undertakings, IOC”, which did not take the accident seriously.
A bench comprising NCDRC president Justice D K Jain and its member M Shreesha upheld Gujarat State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission’s award of Rs 25 lakh compensation, to be paid by IOC, and also added Rs five lakh further compensation.
