Justice JD Kapoor In Action Again: Fines ICICI Bank Rs50 Lakhs

I was wondering what Justice Kapoor was doing these days. He is the judge who was among the first to highlight the abuse of 498A and ended up having his chair broken for his honesty.

Here is a photograph of him:

This is what he had said:

“Once a complaint is lodged under Sections 498A/406 IPC whether there are vague, unspecific or exaggerate allegations or there is no evidence of any physical or mental harm or injury inflicted upon woman that is likely to cause grave injury or danger to life, limb or health, it comes as an easy tool in the hands of Police and agencies like Crime Against Women Cell to hound them with the threat of arrest making them run here and there and force them to hide at their friends or relatives houses till they get anticipatory bail as the offence has been made cognizable and non-bailable. Thousands of such complaints and cases are pending and are being lodged day in and day out.“

Well, he has been busy, this time with the consumer forum, protecting consumers from the hired goons called recovery agents.
Click here for the article:
An excerpt:

“NEW DELHI: The Delhi Consumer Commission fined ICICI bank a whopping fine of Rs 50 lakh for employing “goons” to recover loan and deplored the practice of the banks intimidating consumers to pay the installments.
In the significant judgement, the Commission deprecated the “audacity and impunity” with which the banks have been effecting forcible possession of vehicles and ordered ICICI also to pay Rs 5 lakh to a consumer, who was mercilessly beaten by the recovery agents while they snatched a loaned car from him.
“No civilised society governed by rule of law can brook such kind of conduct,” the Commission’s President Justice J D Kapoor said, adding the violent methods adopted by the recovery agents were serious violation of “human rights”.
Holding the ICICI Bank guilty of “unfair trade practice,” the Commission termed such miscreants as “yahoos” and said they are boorish and a brutal lout, who care a fig for legal and judicial authorities, including the Supreme Court.
While taking to task the leading bank, it vented its anger on ICICI for flouting the apex court’s direction that restrained all the financial institutions from employing musclemen to recover a loan amount or possession of a vehicle. “

Here is more about the same from Atimes.com:

http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IK08Df03.html

Here is the judgment he is famous for:

http://ipc498a.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/justice-jd-kapooronarrest.pdf _______________________________________________________