Q. Dipika Pallikal, the Padma Shri recipient, in a petition filed in 2012 said that she had faced humiliation and loss of reputation, as a transaction using a bank’s debit card at a hotel in the Netherlands’ Rotterdam failed, though she had a balance of more than 10 times the billed amount in her account. The bank claimed that the incident was a case of “force majeure”, which means a natural and unavoidable catastrophe or an act of God, and was beyond is control. A consumer court in Chennai has directed the bank to pay a compensation of lakh to Dipika Pallikal for “deficiency in service”. The bank was also directed to pay her ₹5,000 as expenses. Identify the right of consumers being exercised in the given case.
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Right to seek redressal
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