1998 (3) TMI 526

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....se No. 587 of Jwala Prasad and Case No. 376 of Adhyaksh Samaydoot Sahkari Shram Samvida Samiti and Case No. 268 of Kamta Prasad Vishambhar Agrawal against the Senior Superintendent of Post Offices, Sandila and others by the District Forum, Hardoi. 2. The case in brief is that the complainant Jwala Prasad purchased on behalf of Bansal Transport Company, National Savings Certificates of (VIth Issue) of Rs. 7,000 (Rs. Seven Thousand) for six years and the Adhyaksh Samaydoot Sahkari Shram Samiti for Rs. 1,000 and on their maturity the National Savings Certificates were presented for encashment but the Post Office concerned refused on the ground that the National Savings Certificates cannot be issued in the name of the Firm or Samiti under Rule....

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....for the respondents in both the above appeals. 6. The main issue as noticed above is that whether the National Savings Certificates (6th Issue) could be purchased by the respondents and issued by the Post Office if they being Firms were not competent of purchase it. It was the duty of the Postal Officers or officials who issued the National Savings Certificates in the name of the complainant to clarify at the time of presenting of the application forms which money and refuse the application for issue of the National Savings Certificates in question. Therefore, the Departmental Officers who allowed the purchase and issued the National Savings Certificates in question are also responsible for this deficiency on behalf of the Postal Departmen....