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India seeks $99 million in damages from Nestle after food scare - IceWizard - 08-12-2015
Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:58am EDT
MUMBAI (Reuters) -
The Indian government has filed a class action suit for 6.4 billion rupees ($99 million) against Nestle's Indian unit on behalf of the country's consumers, citing unfair trade practices and the sale of defective goods.
Nestle is the first foreign firm to be asked to pay damages on behalf of consumers.
The suit, made public on Wednesday, follows
India's worst food scare in a decade involving
packaged goods.
A regulator in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in May said it had found excess lead in a sample of Nestle's instant Maggi noodles.
(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Mumbai; Editing by Clara Ferreira Marques)