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1.  Plaintiff filed the suit for recovery of Rs. 75,83,700/­ alongwith future and pendente lite interest @ 15% per annum against the defendants.   

2. Adumbrated in brief the facts of the case of plaintiff are : 

Plaintiff   is   a   proprietorship   firm   and   has   been   working   as   a delar/Authorised   Business   Associate   of   the   defendant   no.1.
CS - 516/17 M/s. Bhagirath Communications Vs. Ricoh India Ltd. & Ors. page 2 of 21 Defendant   no.1   is   engaged   in   the   manufacturing   of   Colour Multifunction Printers, Black and White Multi function printers, Mono and Colour Laser Printers and Copy Printers.  Defendants no.2   to   5   are   jointly   and   collectively   responsible   for   all   the working,   decision   making   and   operations   on   behalf   of   the defendant no.1. The dealer agreement dated 01.04.1999 was for a period of 1 year and was renewable after the initial period at the option of the defendant company.  The work of the plaintiff was appreciated by the defendant company.   It is averred that the  plaintiff   had  spent   a   huge   amount   of   money   in   terms   of trained service engineers, trained sales staff, accountant, back office staff, furniture etc. as per the specific designs/requirement of the defendant no.1.  The plaintiff also spent huge amount of money for the advertisement/sales promotion of the products of the defendant no.1.  The plaintiff played a major role in building the brand name and developing the goodwill of the defendant no.1 at Sangli District.  
  

21.     Plaintiff  was  required  to  remove  defects  in  providing  after sales services.   Accordingly, plaintiff was enjoined to remove defects   and   address   complaints   of   customers.     Per   contra, plaintiff   did   not   remove   defect   nor   addressed   complaint   of customer namely Bhartiya Vidhya Peeth and instead provided flimsy   excuse   of   defect   being   outside   the   scope   of   warranty policy and even refused to service the customer.   Resultantly, defendant   had   to   intervene   and   address   the   complaint   of customer Bhartiya Vidhya Peeth.   Same is borne out from the documents of  defendant including Ex. D9 (also Ex. DW1/4), Ex. D10 (also Ex. DW1/5), Ex. D11(also Ex. DW1/6), Ex. D12 (also Ex. DW1/7).   Breach of Clause 18.1.3 of the dealership agreement by the plaintiff is proved on record which entitled defendant to terminate the agreement forthwith.  The defendants had notified the drastic changes in meeting the sales target and absence   of   cooperation   with   the   Channel   Manager   towards preparing a business plan.  In the plaint it was the averment of CS - 516/17 M/s. Bhagirath Communications Vs. Ricoh India Ltd. & Ors. page 16 of 21 plaintiff inter alia that the reason for Nil colour sales was owing to   his   area   of   operation   being   a   'C'   class   small   city.   Own admission of plaintiff is in plaint for unable to meet the sales target   for   colour   multifunction   printers.     Plaintiff   never mentioned earlier to defendant that it would be unable to reach its target owing to the city being small.   Failure of plaintiff to meet   the   sales   target   was   the   available   ground   invoked   by defendant   under   Clause   18.1.4   of   dealership   agreement   for termination of agreement.