Thane: Holding a dental college guilty of deficiency in services and adopting unfair trade practice, the Thane Additional District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered it to pay Rs 70,000 compensation to a student along with the tuition fee refund of Rs 79,000.

Dismissing the defence of the Terna Dental College in Navi Mumbai, the forum president S S Mhatre and member S S Patil recently asked it to pay compensation and refund amount to Kavita Mullal Kanojia, an OBC category student. According to Kavita, she had passed the HSC exam in 2010 and then secured admission in Terna college on September 12, 2011 after passing the CET.