Mr. Justice M.A.A. Khan, President—This appeal is directed against the order dated 9.4.1997 made by the D.F. Alwar in Complaint Case No. 379/1996 whereby the D.F. allowed respondent’s complaint against the appellants.

2. Relevant facts are these :

Vidyut Karmachari Sangh, Alwar, the respondent, is an association registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926. It had applied on 18.8.1994 to the appellants to sanction an electric connection to it at its office near Company Bagh, Alwar. Their application was duly accepted and the appellants required them, through demand notice dated 23.12.1994, to deposit a sum of Rs. 435/- in relation to providing electric connection to it. The respondent duly deposited the aforesaid amount with the appellants on 10.1.1995. They had already submitted the ‘L’ form on 28.12.1994. But despite their repeated requests the appellants did not provide an electric connection to them. The association, therefore, filed a complaint under Section 12 of the C.P. Act, 1986 before the D.F., Alwar on 27.5.1996, through its General Secretary Shri Jagdish Pd. Gupta. The stand taken by the appellants before the Forum was that the premises, wherein the electric co