Question : Assertion: Under the Consumer Protection Act 2019, a consumer is a person who buys any goods or avails services for a consideration, which has been paid or promised, or partly paid and partly promised, or under any scheme of deferred payment.
Reason: The Consumer Protection Act 2019 applies to only offline transactions.
Option 1: Both the assertion and the reason are correct, and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
Option 2: Both the assertion and the reason are correct, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
Option 3: The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
Option 4: The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.
Correct Answer: The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
Solution : The correct answer is (c) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
The assertion correctly defines who a consumer is under the Consumer Protection Act 2019, but the reason is incorrect. The Consumer Protection Act 2019 applies to both offline and online transactions, not just offline transactions.