{"id":1040864,"date":"2026-10-05T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040864"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:22:51","slug":"delhi-consumer-commission-orders-swiggy-restaurant-to-pay-rs-1-lakh-over-misleading-buffet-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/delhi-consumer-commission-orders-swiggy-restaurant-to-pay-rs-1-lakh-over-misleading-buffet-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi consumer commission orders Swiggy, restaurant to pay Rs 1 lakh over misleading buffet price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi consumer commission has held Swiggy and Themis Barbeque House liable for displaying a misleading buffet price on the food delivery platform and ordered them to jointly pay Rs 1 lakh to a customer for mental agony, harassment, inconvenience and litigation costs. <\/p>\n<p>The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission bench, led by president Divya Jyoti Jaipuriar, also directed the restaurant to refund Rs 3,988 charged in excess of the price displayed on Swiggy Dineout and Rs 254 levied as service charge, both with nine per cent annual interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi consumer commission has held Swiggy and Themis Barbeque House liable for displaying a misleading buffet price on the food delivery platform and ordered them to jointly pay Rs 1 lakh to a customer for mental agony, harassment, inconvenience and litigation costs. The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission bench, led by president Divya Jyoti Jaipuriar, also directed the restaurant to refund Rs 3,988 charged in excess of the price displayed on Swiggy Dineout and Rs 254 levied as service charge, both with nine per cent annual interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040865,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040864\/revisions\/1040865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}