Maj. Gen. S.P. Kapoor, Member—This is an appeal against the order of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-II, U.T., Chandigarh (for short hereinafter to be referred as District Forum-II) dated 10.8.2005 in Complaint Case No. 877 of 2004: Sh. Vinod Kumar Anand v. Sh. Harbhajan Singh and Another.

2. Briefly the complainant’s case is that he had hired the services of the O.Ps. who are building contractors for repair and construction work in his house. According to a written agreement, a sum of Rs. 27,500 was settled as labour charges for completion of various works listed on the contract paper filed as Annexure C-1. The work also included, amongst others, making a gola on the roof to stop leakage in the walls, repair cracks in the roof and correct the slope of the roof. The O.Ps. started work on 2.5.2004 for the repair and construction. Entire construction material was provided by the complainant to the O.Ps. The averment of the complainant is that the repair work to the roof done by the O.Ps. was not proper and there was leakage when water was poured on the roof to check the work done by the O.Ps. He further stated that during heavy rains on 3rd and 4th of October, 2004, th