G.D. Sharma, President—Order dated 27.8.2004 passed by the learned Divisional Consumer Forum, Jammu,(hereinafter to be referred to as the Forum) has been taken in appeal by the appellant, whose complaint, had been accepted but compensation in the sum of Rs 1,500 only was granted in her favour along with interest at the rate of 9 % per annum from the date of filing the complaint(which was filed on 1.5.2003) till its realization. The relevant facts of the case in brief are that appellant herein on the medical prescription issued by Dr. Jaipal Kanotra, purchased tablets of “Allegra” medicine from the shop of Respondent No. 2 for a sum of Rs 50.88 paise. On reaching home when she opened the pack of “Allegra” medicine tablets she found that package contained only three tablets in the aluminium foil which had a batch Number of 023010 and the manufacturing date was February 2003 and the expiry date was January 2005. On that packet the maximum retail price of the tablets for their sale was prescribed at Rs 48.12 paise with local taxes extra and it was mentioned that the package contained six tablets. On opening the packet, the appellant found that there were only three tablets t