A woman named Shikha Monga from Chandigarh has been in a legal tussle with the world’s leading beverage company Coca-Cola since 2003. Apparently, Shikha, who was then a college going teenager, spent all her pocket money and bought several bottles of Coca-Cola to take part in a Kahona Pyar Hai promotional contest in the year 2000, in which the company announced that the winner will go on a dinner date with the Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.
Even though Shikha won the contest, the company never kept its promise and upon repeated meetings and writing numerous letters, Shikha was offered Rs. 5 lakhs as the company was unable to arrange the dinner date with Hrithik. Shikha, after realizing that the company had cheated her, filed a law suit in a local court in 2003, claiming Rs. 2.5 crore as damage charges for causing her insult in the society.
After 12 long years, the court finally issued notice to Coca Cola. The court also exempted Shikha from paying Rs 2.43 lakh as court fee saying that “the applicant is not possessed of sufficient means to pay the court fee and she is indigent.” In her law suit, Shikha stated that she felt humiliated because of Coca-Cola as all her friends and relatives kept on asking her about her dinner date and that she was called a liar.
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