N.K. Jain, President — The follo-wing order of the Commission was deli-vered by Justice N.K. Jain, President :

Decision of all these appeals turns on the answer to the question as to whether the complainants who are respondents in Appeals Nos. 1355/2003, 1356/2003, 1357/2003 and appellants in Appeals Nos. 1877/2003 and 1878/2003 are consumers within the meaning of Section 2(1)(d) of the Consumer Pro-tection Act, 1986 (for short the CP Act). In all the three cases Nos. 46/2003, 48/2003 and 49/2003 giving rise to these appeals, M/s. Sukhram Kodarmal and Co. was the opposite party. All these appeals have heard as analogous matters and are being disposed of by this common order. (For the sake of convenience we shall refer the parties as complaint and opposite party).

2. Facts leading to the filing of said three complaints are more or less similar in all the cases. The opposite party “M/s. Sukhram Kodarmal And Co.” are cotton merchants and commission agents working at village-Khalwa, District-Khandwa. They in order to meet their needs for business had taken some loan from the complainants and it was more or less a running account between the parties. The money was advanced by the com