JUDGMENT :

Factual Backdrop

1. Consumer Case No. 697/2018 was preferred by O.P. Mehta and Siddharth Wadia, the respondents herein, against the petitioner DLF Homes Rajapura Pvt Ltd, before the learned National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission ("the learned NCDRC" ) under Section 12(1)(c) [12. Manner in which complaint shall be made. – (1) A complaint in relation to any goods sold or delivered or agreed to be sold or delivered or any service provided or agreed to be provided may be filed with a District Forum by – ***** (c) one or more consumers, where there are numerous consumers having the same interest, with the permission of the District Forum, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, all consumers so interested;"] read with Section 13(6) [13. Procedure on admission of complaint. – ***** (6) Where the complainant is a consumer referred to in sub-clause (iv) of clause (b) of sub- section (1) of Section 2, the provisions of Rule 8 of Order I of the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) shall apply subject to the modification that every reference therein to a suit or decree shall be construed as a reference to a complaint or the order of the District Forum