ORDER :

1. Assailing the order passed by the Permanent Lok Adalat for Public Utility Services, Kadapa, dated 3.4.2019 in PLAC No. 349 of 2018, wherein respondents 1 and 2 therein were directed to pay an amount of Rs. 1,00,000/- each to the petitioner therein as compensation, the present Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

2. In order to appreciate the rival contentions advanced, it would be useful to refer to the facts in issue, which are as under.

3. The writ petitioner herein is a Chief Manager, State Bank of India, Bazar Branch, Kadapa. The 1st respondent herein was a customer of the petitioner-bank having a saving bank account. He made an application under Section 22C of Andhra Pradesh Legal Services Authority Act seeking an award for Rs. 1,00,000/- towards compensation for the fraudulent withdrawal of amount in connection with usage of his credit card and also another sum of Rs. 1,00,000/- towards compensation for mental agony which he has undergone. In other words, his case is that as directed by one, Anand, staff of the petitioner- bank (disputed), he produced copies of Aadhar Card and other documents for obtaining credit card. In the month of