Mrs. Firoza Bano, Member—This appeal is directed against the order given by the District Forum, Kota ordering the appellant to provide a house measuring 35 x 60 ft. in journalist quota in Kesavpura scheme and if no house was available in that scheme, then to charge only Rs. 61,790/- for the house No. 8-B-13 Mahaveer Nagar, Kota allotted to him.

2. The appellants have contended that the complaint was beyond pecuniary jurisdiction of the District Forum, Kota, that the respondent is not a consumer, that the complaint is time barred, that the respondent was not a journalist, that Keshavpura Housing Scheme does not belong to applicant, that the respondent’s case is not comparable with the case of Shri Piyush Jain and Shri Jagdeep Singh and that the judgment deserves to be set aside.

3. We have heard the learned Counsels for the parties and gone through the records of the case. The respondent got himself registered for allotment of a house with the UIT in journalist quota and his application was subsequently transferred to the appellants. The appellants thereafter demanded Rs. 4,600/- from the respondent, which were deposited by him on 14.8.82. Thus the relationship of consumer come i