Maruti Suzuki India — Fail to repair Issue in door of a brand new Alto car after multiple attempts

I bought new alto car from Pratham motors Bangalore in Dec 2021, got it delivered in Jan 2022.
Immediately I got Covid and did not use it for many weeks. Once I started using I noticed that whenever I unlock the door it gets stuck I can't come out or get in.
I use other doors by climbing out of the seat. There was an issue with another passenger door too.
This happened intermittently so I was very confused. Then after some days, I informed the showroom about the problem. There was absolutely no response.
I had no clue whom to approach and I hardly had time to find out what to do because of my workload.
Then after many many days of complaints they responded saying there is no way a new car has a problem, they blamed me for not using the door properly.
I send pictures and videos of the problem after that they came and checked and took it for repair.

After a few days of the 1st repair, the problem reappeared intermittently and became frequent. So they took the car to repair again for the second time!!
After the 2nd repair, the problem happened again but very rarely so it was challenging to show them the issue. I had no choice but to keep quiet.
Now the problem is frequent again. I am worried that Maruti will just keep dragging this and after the warranty is over
Maruti will make me pay for the repair for this repeated problem from the car which had defective door during delivery itself.

Maruti customer care is just made to protect Maruti from its own mistakes. Maruti has no integrity and does not take any responsibility for its errors.
They don't communicate by email, a smart strategy to avoid any kind of accountability.
Whenever I call customer care I have to start explaining the long story from the beginning which take 15 minutes in itself.
Even if anyone calls the only thing that happens is the repetition of the story of what has happened. So even the calls with Maruti are not about problem-solving.

The service people are just waiting to extract money. They ask me to drop off and pick up the car with my busy work schedule for the problem that Maruti has caused.
They wanted me to pay for the pickup and drop. Every time the problem happened I asked for a refund since I did not want a car that had a manufacturing issue.

Maruti does not realize that it is compromising my safety when it is hiding its own mistakes. When I asked if they have seen a similar issue earlier they said no.

I saw many similar complaints: https://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/maruti-udyog-ltd-esteem-c266734.htm...

Also, I saw the news: "Maruti Suzuki recalls over 33k Alto cars to fix the problem with door":
Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/46517122.cms?utm_source=contentof...

I have videos of similar problems in my brand new car which is not yet resolved even after multiple repairs by Maruti.
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