This might be the battle of a lifetime that was just won Tungnath Chaturvedi. This Indian lawyer wins legal battle, which is ongoing for 22 years, facing the public railway company. In question, ticket costs 90 rupees (1.09 euros) instead of 70 rupees (85 cents).
Again and again, lawyers multiply reimbursement requests from public companies. Faced with successive failures of these requests, Tungnath Chaturvedi seized mathura consumer court, a city in the north of the country. And that sentence fell this month. The public railway company is ordered to pay him 15,000 rupees (182 euros) compensation (12% per year).
“It’s not about money it’s about my rights. As a citizen, I have the right to question the arbitrary and corrupt practices of the state or its mechanisms,” the lawyer said.AFP.
According to the principal of the school concerned, this 22-year-long affair demands that it be held 120 audiences. And if he wins his case, Tungnath Chaturvedi will spend a lot of energy and pay 20,000 rupees (244 euros) in administrative and legal fees. “As a lawyer, it is my duty to fight for my rights”, the Indian judge stressed.
