Mr. Justice S. Parvatha Rao, President— The respondents were served. Heard the learned Counsel for the appellant. Counsel for the 1st respondent not present. The 2nd respondent is not present nor represented by Counsel.

2. The 1st respondent in this appeal was the complainant before the District Forum. His case is that he alongwith six others went to the appellant’s Hotel Manasa in Cuddapah on the evening of 21.6.1996 and ordered for seven meals and seven plates of mutton boneless and one chicken curry and that the hotel supplied only three small pieces of mutton per plate though charging Rs. 34/- per plate. They complained about me quantity of the mutton supplied per plate and did not receive a proper reply from the server. He only stated that the hotel supplied fixed quantity of mutton per plate. They wanted to pay less, but the manager of the hotel who was present on that day refused to take any amount less than what was charged in the bill i.e. at Rs. 34/- per plate. Upon that they approached the Cuddapah District Forum by way of O.P. No. 238/1996 seeking directions to the appellant to pay back Rs. 158/- being the excess amount collected towards seven plates of mutton and a