Woman moves consumer court for getting delivered non-veg pizza, seeks Rs 1 crore compensation

A vegetarian woman has approached the consumer court complaining that an American pizza restaurant chain outlet delivered her a nonvegetarian pizza and has sought compensation of Rs one crore from the restaurant chainDeepali Tyagi in her petition has claimed that she is a pure vegetarian because of her religious beliefs teachings family traditions own conscience and her best choiceOn March 21 2019 Deepali placed an order for a vegetarian pizza from the pizza outlet at her residence at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh That day it was the occasion of Holi and the complainant and their children were hungry after celebrating the festival She further said that the pizza was delivered late as opposed to 30 minutes delivery time frame given by the company However she chose to ignore the same and took a bite of the pizza It was at that moment they realised that it was a nonvegetarian pizza and there were pieces of meat instead of mushroom the complainant said in her complaintHer lawyer Farhat Warsi told the consumer court that Deepali immediately called customer care and raised a complaint on their gross negligence and delivering a nonveg pizza in a house of pure vegetariansThen on March 26 2019 a person who referred to himself as the district manager of the pizza outlet made a call to the complainant and gave an offer of serving pizzas to the whole family of the complainants at the outlet free of cost However the complainant told him again that this is not a simple case as they are assuming it since the opposite party has spoiled the religious practices of the complainant and gave her a permanent mental agony she would have to go through several long and expensive rituals which will cost her lakhs of rupees during her entire lifeAt this the district manager of the pizza outlet replied that since he is not authorised to negotiate in terms of money he would hand over the matter to their own legal team the complaint copy readsShe said that the nature of the response from the opposite party was very casual an offer of serving pizza free of cost was nothing but a mockery an insult to the social and financial status of the complainantThat the opposite partys negligent manner of performance has contaminated complainant body with food mixed with animal meat that was acquired by killing and cutting short the life given by God to any animal In her religious belief killing any animal and eating its meat is a paap sin The opposite party has a deceitfully involved complainant in that sin of eating animal meat They have wounded her soul giving her mental agony for her whole life They have ravaged her religious belief the petition saidDeepali has urged the consumer court to direct the opposite party to provide the claim of Rs one crore to her and also direct the pizza outlet to pay the complainant compensation for mental harassment and financial hardship caused by the opposite partyA Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has asked the pizza outlet to file a reply to the womans complaint and has listed the matter for further hearing on March 17This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever