Mr. Justice M.R. Agnihotri, President—This order shall dispose of two appeals— Appeal No. 769 of 1995 filed by the complainant Tejpal and others and Appeal No. 776 of 1995 filed by the Haryana State Electricity Board, against the impugned order dated 13.11.1995 passed by the learned District Consumer Forum, Gurgaon, whereby a sum of Rs. 15,540/- has been awarded by way of compensation to the complainants on account of deficiency in service on the part of the Haryana State Electricity Board. The complainants approached the District Consumer Forum, Gurgaon, with the grievance that they were progressive farmers and had sown vegetables like water-melon, cucumber, melon, tomato, chillies and mint etc. in 1995, but as the transformer supplying electricity to their tubewell got burnt on 17.5.1995, the crops sown by them got damaged due to non-supply of water in the scorching heat of summer thereby causing loss of about Rs. 45,000/- to them. In their reply, the Electricity Board pleaded that no doubt the transformer in question got burnt on 22.5.1995 and the matter was promptly reported by the S.D.O. concerned to the Chief Engineer who immediately ordered installation of a new transfo