The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh on M/s IQRA IAS Institute for allegedly issuing false and misleading advertisement.
The CCPA headed by Chief Commissioner, Nidhi Khare and Commissioner, Anupam Mishra issued an order against M/s IQRA IAS Institute for misleading advertisement and unfair trade practice by allegedly advertising misleading testimonials of top-rank holders of the years 2015-2017 in the UPSC Civil Services Exam, according to a PIB report.
The report further pointed that the issue came to the notice of CCPA through the website of IQRA IAS Institute established in 2018. The Institute deliberately and falsely claimed through the testimonials of top-rank holders of UPSC CSE in 2015 and 2017 as their students which is factually deceiving.
"CCPA took suo-moto cognizance and found that along with the aforesaid false claim, the Institute claimed itself as the only coaching academy to have the best faculty from all around India for providing the best UPSC online prelims test series 2020, thus making it the top UPSC coaching within a year in Pune. Accordingly, notice was issued to IQRA IAS Institute," the report said.
Meanwhile, the institute, in its response, submitted that the faculty members of Pune and Kanpur are highly qualified as well as reputed and have a Google rating of 4.6 out of 5. The test series for the year 2020 was prepared with their high skills and research quality which was an academic success. The...
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