Mr. S.C. Mohapatra, President — This is a complaint for a direction to pay compensation of Rs. 2,52,420/- to the complainant by the opposite parties for deficiency in service with regard to non-issuance of certified copies in execution proceeding case No. 26 of 1976-77.

2. Case of complainant, in short, is that his advocate applied for certified copies which was not attended to and he also applied which was not attended. Complaint before the Registrar of Cooperative Societies and the State Government yielded no result and for more than three years he is not able to get the certified copies from the Assistant Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Puri.

3. Opposite parties stated their case jointly. Their case, in short, is that non-supply of copies is not intentional. It is on account of non-availability of record from which the certified copy is intended to be taken. It is stated that neither the complainant nor his lawyer is entitled to certified copies in view of Rule 81 of the Orissa Co-operative Societies Rules made under the Orissa Co-operative Societies Act.

4. Both complainant and opposite parties have supported their cases by filing copies of documents. From the complaint