Mr. Sardar Ali, Member—This order will dispose of an application filed by the applicant under Section 12-B of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) against the abovementioned respondent. The facts of the case are briefly as under :

2. The applicant, which is a Photostat and Type Centre at Kherli (Alwar), Rajasthan, purchased from Kores India Limited (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) an Automatic Plain Paper Copier Machine for the sum of Rs. 43,100/-, which was duly paid by the applicant. The machine carried a warranty for a period of six months. The warranty card starts from 2.3.1990, i.e. the date of installation of the machine. It has been alleged by the applicant that the machine in question started immediately after the installation and the machine has gone out of order number of times and the service engineer of the respondent did attend to the machine always after a gap of at least three weeks of the complaint and the machine never worked satisfactorily. This process continued throughout the period until on 24th June, 1990 and thereafter the service engineer of the respondent told the applicant that his fut