North East Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum's direction came on three separate complaints of students who were denied admission to their desired course by a private institute.
The forum asked the institute to refund their advance fees of Rs 5,000 each and pay them compensation of Rs 15,000 each for causing harassment.
The forum said the matter is "serious" as students and parents are being duped by several educational institutes, indulging in such "unfair trade practices."
The forum headed by its President N A Zaidi asked Vikas Puri-based institute 'My College of Education' to pay damages to the three students, who were denied admission to B Ed course of the Jammu University, for causing them harassment and for preventing them from applying for admission to some other institution and to apply for a better job.
"The respondent (institute) is found to be indulging in unfair trade practice by duping the complainant and other students of their hard-earned money and it should be viewed with serious concern by the Ministry of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi to save them from being duped and made to suffer in their career prospects.
"It (the government) should heavily come down upon such unscrupulous institutes who manipulate to get ISO certification but fail to provide quality services to the students approaching them and swindle the hard earned money of
The students/their parents," the bench also comprising its members Poonam Malhotra and Nishat Ahmad Alvi said. (More)