Mr. Justice S. Parvatha Rao, President—These two appeals i.e., FA No. 331/1999 and 332/1999 respectively are preferred against the orders dated 17.3.1999 of the Guntur District Forum in C.D. Nos. 125/1998 and 126/1998 by the opposite parties in those CDs. The respondents in these two appeals are the complainants in those two CDs respectively.

2. It is not necessary to go into the merits because, after hearing both sides, we are inclined to set aside the orders under appeal and remand the CDs to the District Forum for fresh disposal. The CDs came up before the District Forum for hearing on 10.3.1999. The dockets of the two CDs show that there was no appearance of either party on that day and therefore the matters were reserved for final orders and thereafter on 17.3.1999 final orders were pronounced in both the CDs by the District Forum. However, the District Forum did not notice that already applications were filed by the opposite parties on 12.3.1994 to re-open the matters and to receive the documents and sworn statements of the opposite parties, explaining the reasons why the Counsel could not be present on 10.3.1999 when the matters were called. The Advocate appearing for th