Mr. Justice B.N. Sinha, President — This appeal has been directed against order dated 28- 11-90 passed by the District Forum, Patna in complaint case No. 50 of 1989, and it has been filed by the appellant who was the opposite party before the District Forum and hereinafter called the opposite party. The respondent No. 1 was complainant before the District Forum (hereinafter called ‘the complainant’).

2. The complainant applied for allotment of a M.I.G. Flat at Patna to the Bihar State Housing Board (the O.P. - appellant), a statutory authority constituted under the Bihar State Housing Board Act, 1982 and got his application registered on 12.l2.72 and subsequently he deposited Rs. 2,000/- on 30.6.81 in the prescribed form on the receipt of a booklet from the O.P. which was sent to him after much delay and after several quarries made by the complainant with regard to the registeration of his application and that in the meantime flats were allotted to different persons and the claim of the complainant was completely ignored, and bypassed though the complainant had completed all the formalities which were required to be done for allotment of plots. The opposite party disputed the c