Couple to get back Rs 77,000 spent on infertility drugs

  • | Friday | 22nd February, 2019

This time she was asked to pay Rs 44,000. They lured the couple into buying their medicines from Gayatri Ayurvedic Store in Manjalpur. The samples were sent to food and drug laboratory which reported that the honey was not pure. A day later, they again approached her with another person who introduced himself as their guru. The guru told her that the medicines are not appropriate for her body and advised her to buy another medicine from the same store.

VADODARA: Childless after 11 years of marriage, a couple fell into the trap of three fraudsters, who lured them into buying medicines worth Rs 77,000.However, the victims Anita Bariya and her husband Harshad Bariya were lucky to have their hard-earned money back after a consumer court ruled in their favour recently. While Anita is a home maker, her husband works as a bus driver in a private travels company.It was in September 2012 that Anita was approached by two people named Rajvaidya Narsing Parmar and Rajvaidya Pratapsing assuring her that their medicines would help her conceive. They lured the couple into buying their medicines from Gayatri Ayurvedic Store in Manjalpur. The duo took Anita to the store and asked her to pay Rs 12,000 for two bottles of honey and 'bhasma'.Five days later, the duo again went to Anita's house in Manjalpur asking her to buy another set of medicines worth Rs 18,000. They told her that the earlier medicine won't suit her body. A day later, they again approached her with another person who introduced himself as their guru. The guru told her that the medicines are not appropriate for her body and advised her to buy another medicine from the same store. This time she was asked to pay Rs 44,000. She was hesitant but her in-laws insisted that they will pay the money.When the same drama took place again on the next day, Anita became suspicious about them and denied to buy more medicines. "I consulted other medical stores and some neighbours who warned against such fraud," said Anita.Even before the two quacks contacted her, the couple had tried several medical treatments to conceive, but due to some shortcomings they could not. "My in-laws were desperate to have a grandchild since my husband is their only son. On their insistence, we kept shelling out money, but to no avail ," she said. Later, on realizing that they had been cheated, Anita's mother-in-law approached the consumer court in June 2013 through Jagrut Nagrik - a voluntary consumer association to get their money back.The bill that Anita had taken during her last purchase from the medical store was submitted in the court along with the bottles of honey and 'bhasma'. The samples were sent to food and drug laboratory which reported that the honey was not pure. "The quacks were hand-in-glove with the medical store owner and planned to cheat the victim taking advantage of her situation by selling sub-standard products," said P V Moorjani, managing trustee of Jagrut Nagrik.On observing that the medical store owner had indulged in unfair trade practices and sold goods that were not consumable, the additional Vadodara District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered the medical store to pay Rs 70,000 to Anita along with an interest of 9% and Rs 5,500 as compensation and litigation cost.

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