D.R. VithaI Rao, President. - The complainant - the Consumer Citizens Forum Raichur, on behalf of 7 persons, the members of the opposite party - Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd., Employees Co-operative Housing Society ltd., made the complaint alleging deficiency of service on the part of the opposite party-society in not providing the house sites as promised and collected the money from the 7 complainants for allotting the sites and claimed compensation from the opposite party-society for this act of deficiency of service by the opposite party-society.

2. The opposite party-society filed its version and averred that the grievances made by the complainant were regarding the business of the opposite party-society and so the complaint under the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, was untenable as per the provisions of Section 70 of the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959.

3. The averments made at para 3 of the objection statements filed by the opposite party, read as under:

"3. Admittedly, the 7 persons on whose behalf the complaint has been filed are members of the, respondent-society which is, a society registered under the provisions of the Karnataka Co-operat