Mr. Justice H.S. Brar, President—It’s an appeal against the order dated 29.2.2000 of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Sangrur (hereinafter called the District Forum).

2. Brief facts stated in the complaint are that the appellant-opposite party (hereinafter called the opposite party) had started publishing various Law Journals and through its different publications made a scheme for the life membership of their respective journals regarding the law books and asked the general public to make a deposit with him then he will be issued anyone of their publications free of costs for life. The publications were described as under :

“(I) Civil, Criminal and Revenue;

(II) Services;

(III) Banking and Corporate Law;

(IV) Criminal;

(V) Himachal Pradesh;

(VI) Combined.”

3. It was then stated in the complaint that the respondent-complainant (hereinafter called the complainant) had deposited his subscription with the opposite party and became a life member vide the life member certificate Membership No. PB-01966 from the year 1994 and the complainant was a member of Criminal Law Journal published by the opposite party. Life membership certificate, mentioned above, has been placed a