ORDER

K.B. Sangannanavar : Pri. Dist & Session Judge (R) - Judicial Member—The complaint filed U/s.12 of CPA 1986 with prayer to pass an award directing OP.1 & 2 to replace the defective vehicle Skoda Laura with Laura or equivalent thereof (if Laura as a brand is dispensed with now) which is free from any manufacturing defects or price of the vehicle and to direct OP.1 & 2 to pay Rs.25 lakhs towards compensation for endangering the life of the Complainant and towards causing mental torture, agony and harassment.

2. The brief facts of the case of the Complainant is that he is the owner of Laura car bearing reg.no.KA52 M6666 purchased from OP.2, which was manufactured by OP.1 for Rs.18,66,667/-. He alleged that his vehicle had chronic problem of AC & ABS and one of the Laura owner sounded caution that all Skoda cars are having ABS problems as early as 2010. The vehicle was sent to OP.2 and OP.2 called their engineers from Chennai for rectifying ABS problem but any repair on ABS was short lived. The Chief Mechanic was informed that ABS in Skoda Laura is a manufacturing defect. He has been approaching the OP.2 from the past 3 years about the malfunction of the ABS and the said problem