M.K. Basu, President— This is a complaint under Section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1986 filed by M.D. Technomeck Pvt. Ltd. and others against M/s. Tirupati Engineers and others claiming various reliefs on the following grounds. The Complainants who are reputed engineering firms placed orders for purchase of Milling machine etc. with the opposite party on 25-3-1997. The price of such machines was fixed at Rs. 6,18,268/-. The O.P. duly confirmed and accepted that order by their letter dt. 28-3-1997, proforma invoice being No. 876 dt. 28-3-1997. The said machines were delivered by the O.P. on 26-6-1997, 11-7-1997 and 3-9-1997 respectively and on giving trial run the complainants found a number of faults and manu-facturing defects in each of these machines. Thereafter the Complainants requested the O.P. to set the defects right but all fell on deaf ears. The O.P. did not care to pay any heed to such requests. The petitioner’s repeated reminders and representations to the O.P. for rectifying the defects of the machines were greeted with no response and the O.Ps did not even came to inspect the machine, for a single time and as a result the peti-tioners have suffered a substa