Mr. V.S. Kandasamy, Member — By this common order, the above mentioned 13 appeals are disposed of. All these appeals arise out of one common order rendered by the District Forum, Tirunelveli in 13 O.Ps. before it. The complainants are different in the said 13 O.Ps. but the opposite parties in all the O.Ps. are the same. As the issues involved in all these appeals are the same, they are disposed of by this common order.

2. In the said 13 O.Ps., in 12 of them, each one of the complainants has deposited on 31.3.93 a sum of Rs. 30,000/- with the State Bank of India, Palayamkottai, under the Public Provident Fund Scheme, 1988. In the remaining O.P. i.e. C.D.P. No. 21/95 the complainant on the same date had deposited Rs. 1,50,000/-. After the lapse of thirteen months from the date of deposit i.e. on 4.5.94, the opposite parties sent back to each of the 12 complainants a sum of Rs. 2,40,000/- and to the complainant in the remaining O.P. No. 21 /95 a sum of Rs. 90,000/- stating that the maximum that can be deposited under Public Provident Fund Scheme is Rs. 60,000/- only and therefore the amounts over and above that deposited by the claimants were returned. Now, the case of the complai