Luxury car maker Mercedes Benz India , fighting a legal battle for around 12 years over charges of resorting to unfair trade practice for phasing out one of its vehicle models, has been cleared of the allegation by national consumer commission.
"Merc Benz India and TELCO can at best be said to have made a representation to the effect that they had no immediate plans to launch a new model. Launch of a new model after more than a year after the sale of the car cannot by any stretch come within the meaning of the term 'immediate'," an NCDRC bench of Justice R C Jain and member S K Naik said.