Mr. Justice M.S. Parikh, President—This appeal arises from order dated 30.8.2002 rendered by the learned Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Panchmahals in Complaint Application No. 289 of 2001 directing the opponent Postal Department to pay to the complainant compensation in the sum of Rs. 5,000/- on the head of mental torture and hardship and for loosing opportunity of getting a job and cost quantified at Rs. 500/-, in all Rs. 5,500/- with interest at the rate of 9% p.a. and penal interest at the rate of 15% p.a. It was the complainant’s case before the learned Forum that she had applied for a job with the Industrial Training Centre, Vadodara who had issued a letter of interview on 4.10.2001 fixing interview on 20.10.2001. But, unfortunately for the complainant, she received it on 27.10.2001. She, therefore, alleged deficiency in service on the part of the opponent Postal Department resulting into loss of opportunity for her to appear for the interview on 20.10.2001. She, therefore, claimed compensation in the sum of Rs. 5,00,000/- with interest at the rate of 12% p.a. The opponent Postal Department resisted the complaint inter alia on the ground that the complainant could no