{"id":118046,"date":"2026-06-29T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/deficiency-in-service-consumer-panel-orders-nhai-to-compensate-motorist-over-pothole-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:37:20","slug":"deficiency-in-service-consumer-panel-orders-nhai-to-compensate-motorist-over-pothole-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/deficiency-in-service-consumer-panel-orders-nhai-to-compensate-motorist-over-pothole-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deficiency in service&#8217;: Consumer panel orders NHAI to compensate motorist over pothole damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nagpur consumer commission has ruled that collecting toll without maintaining roads is a &#8216;deficiency in service&#8217;. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was ordered to compensate a motorist whose car was damaged by a pothole. The commission emphasized that providing safe roads is a toll collector&#8217;s responsibility, and vehicle damage due to poor road conditions warrants compensation for repair costs, distress, and legal expenses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nagpur consumer commission has ruled that collecting toll without maintaining roads is a &#8216;deficiency in service&#8217;. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was ordered to compensate a motorist whose car was damaged by a pothole. The commission emphasized that providing safe roads is a toll collector&#8217;s responsibility, and vehicle damage due to poor&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/deficiency-in-service-consumer-panel-orders-nhai-to-compensate-motorist-over-pothole-damage\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Deficiency in service&#8217;: Consumer panel orders NHAI to compensate motorist over pothole damage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}