High Court and Supreme Court on MRP
Supreme Cort seeks Centre’s response on hotels charging more than MRP
The Supreme Court has sought response from the Centre on whether a hotel or a restaurant can charge for a bottle of drinking water more than the maximum retail price (MRP) marked on the container. The Supreme Court has sought response from the Centre on whether a hotel or a restaurant can charge for a bottle of drinking water more than the maximum retail price (MRP) marked on the container.
The issue raised before the apex court by the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India is whether it is impermissible for its members to charge their customers/guests for the mineral water packaged and bottled by third parties price above the MRP mentioned on the container.
A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra issued notice to the Department of Consumer Affairs, Controller of Weights and Measures, and others on an appeal filed by the Association seeking setting aside of the division bench of the Delhi High Court’s February order.
The HC bench while disposing of the appeals filed by the government had kept the question of law, which was decided by its single judge, open for adjudication in any fresh proceedings under the new law. It had also held that the single judge’s March 2007 order “shall not be a precedent” in any case even if the concerned provisions of the old (repealed law) and the new law were identical.
The HC bench’s order had nullified the binding effect of Justice Vikramjit Sen’s 2007 order that ruled that hotels and restaurants in the Capital can sell bottled mineral water over and above the MRP to customers who visit them and enjoy their other services facilities. Sen had observed that “the customer does not enter a hotel or a restaurant to make a simple purchase of the bottled water. It may well be that a client will order nothing beyond a bottle of water or a beverage, but his direct purpose in doing so would clearly be to enjoy the ambience available therein and to ordering of any article for consumption.”
The Association told the apex court that the HC bench’s decision had “grossly undermined the sanctity and integrity of the judicial/adjudicatory process. It said that irreparable harm and injury will be caused to its members if the Centre is permitted to commence proceedings under the Legal Metrology Act 2009 without allowing its members to rely on 2007 judgement.
Senior counsel Harish Salve argued that charging prices for mineral water in excess of MRP during the service does neither violate the provisions of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act/ the Packaged Commodities Rules nor the new law. “There is an element of service, so MRP can’t apply,” he said.
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The Supreme Court has sought response from the Centre on whether a hotel or a restaurant can charge for a bottle of drinking water more than the maximum retail price (MRP) marked on the container. The Supreme Court has sought response from the Centre on whether a hotel or a restaurant can charge for a bottle of drinking water more than the maximum retail price (MRP) marked on the container.
The issue raised before the apex court by the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Associations of India is whether it is impermissible for its members to charge their customers/guests for the mineral water packaged and bottled by third parties price above the MRP mentioned on the container.
A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra issued notice to the Department of Consumer Affairs, Controller of Weights and Measures, and others on an appeal filed by the Association seeking setting aside of the division bench of the Delhi High Court’s February order.
The HC bench while disposing of the appeals filed by the government had kept the question of law, which was decided by its single judge, open for adjudication in any fresh proceedings under the new law. It had also held that the single judge’s March 2007 order “shall not be a precedent” in any case even if the concerned provisions of the old (repealed law) and the new law were identical.
The HC bench’s order had nullified the binding effect of Justice Vikramjit Sen’s 2007 order that ruled that hotels and restaurants in the Capital can sell bottled mineral water over and above the MRP to customers who visit them and enjoy their other services facilities. Sen had observed that “the customer does not enter a hotel or a restaurant to make a simple purchase of the bottled water. It may well be that a client will order nothing beyond a bottle of water or a beverage, but his direct purpose in doing so would clearly be to enjoy the ambience available therein and to ordering of any article for consumption.”
The Association told the apex court that the HC bench’s decision had “grossly undermined the sanctity and integrity of the judicial/adjudicatory process. It said that irreparable harm and injury will be caused to its members if the Centre is permitted to commence proceedings under the Legal Metrology Act 2009 without allowing its members to rely on 2007 judgement.
Senior counsel Harish Salve argued that charging prices for mineral water in excess of MRP during the service does neither violate the provisions of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act/ the Packaged Commodities Rules nor the new law. “There is an element of service, so MRP can’t apply,” he said.
THE MATTER IS HERE NOW. WE CAN WAIT FOR APEX COURT'S DECISION. more
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Oct 31
Not only in hotels , the water bottles, soft drinks , food items are sold at higher MRP in the road side Hotels, by the Railway vendors in side the coaches , in the canteens of the ST Stands . The public is to be alerted via media . more
May 13
It should not be sold more than the MRP, if at all sold heavy penalty has to be imposed. All the hotel reception has to display the rates of the items being sold by them only on MRP. more
May 10
Am confused, whether Sc is the higher authority or the HC or the individual heading the HC more
May 10
selling water is itself a national curse, MRP and more than MRP is an extension. Chanakya quoted, where a situation emerges, when water, sand and air are sold to people, that government is a decayed to the core. more
May 09
