Charging Rs 8 for a paper bag proved costly for a Reliance Clothing India store after a Punekar dragged the company to the consumer forum for 'extortion'. The court has ordered the retail company to pay the customer R8 along with interest and an additional compensation of Rs 25,000.

Pune District Grievance Redressal Forum's president Umesh Jawalikar along with members, Kshitija Kulkarni and Sangita Deshmukh, passed the order recently after Devendra Siha, a resident of the Security section, Air Force in Pune's Viman Nagar approached the forum against the Store Manager of a Reliance Clothing India Private Limited store located in Vimannagar on August 30, 2019.