Luxury car maker, dealer ‘hide vehicle’s purchase history’, to pay owner Rs 10 lakh

5 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 30, 2026 03:49 PM IST The complainant alleges that the car sold to the complainant was earlier sold to another person.A Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held Mercedes-Benz India and its dealer, T&T Motors, guilty of unfair trade practice for allegedly failing to disclose the correct history of a sedan. Both parties were, therefore, directed to pay Rs 5 lakh each to the buyer while the vehicle’s purchase record was ordered to be updated. President Monika Aggarwal Srivastava and members Rajender Dhar and Ritu Garodia observed that the complainant was never told that the vehicle’s purchase date had been recorded as July 2018 in the opposite parties’ records and that the entry was incapable of being altered at the time of sale by the dealer and m