The matchmakers did not find him a match. He was promised around 12 proposals every month, but he ended up getting just one suitor. Throwing in the towel after the frustrating wait for a bride, Rajendra Muley, 58, decided to move consumer court against the portal.
No luck there either. The Bandra consumer court recently dismissed his plea saying the portal could not be blamed if no woman was responding to his proposal.
Muley, a Dadar resident, had registered with the portal - inmatri.com - in February 2007 after paying a fee of Rs2,960. The portal's managers had promised to send him 10-12 proposals every month. Since they had failed to find a suitable match, the portal was "guilty of deficiency of service", Muley said .
The officials of the website denied the allegation. They said once a candidate registers himself, his details are fed into the software and a database is created for him. The software searches out persons that match the given criteria and then automatically sends emails to "possible matches". The potential match could either ignore or respond to the email.
Despite initiating "umpteen alliances", all proposals, barring one, were turned down or ignored, the portal said. It submitted a chart of entries before the court, which shows that 100 alliances were generated by the system.
Muley tried to establish in court that he was not computer-friendly and therefore the proposals should have been sent to him by post.
However,the court observed that as per the contract, Muley had agreed that all the proposals be forwarded to him in his email account.
President JL Deshpande with members VG Joshi and DS Bidnurkar held that the portal had made an honest at tempt to send Muley proposals, but only one showed interest in him.
"Perhaps this created an impression in the mind of the complainant (Muley) that he was being overlooked by the opposite party (inmatri.com) and no proposals were sent to him, "the court said.
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