JUDGMENT

Pinaki Chandra Ghose, J.

1. The present appeal has been filed assailing the order dated April 13, 2005 passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (hereinafter referred to as “the National Commission”) in Revision Petition Nos. 534-537 of 2005, affirming the order dated November 10, 2004 passed by the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as “the State Commission”), which further confirmed the order dated September 20, 2001 passed by the District Forum.

2. The facts of the case briefly are as follows :

a) By a notification dated November 16, 1971, the Haryana State Government under Section 7 of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the said Act’), notified the area of New Grain Mandi, Adampur as Market Area. Subsequently, in the year 1974, the areas/limits were further extended by five kilometers. In 1980, the State Government notified a sub-market yard of New Grain Mandi, Adampur. The Colonization Department of the State by a letter dated January 24, 1986, transferred the said area to the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, the appellant herein.

b) The respondents h