ORDER

K.C. Gupta, President - This appeal has been directed by the OP against order dated 25.10.2001 passed by Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Bathinda (for short hereinafter to be referred as District Consumer Forum) vide which the complaint of the respondent/complainant was accepted and the appellant was directed to charge non-construction fee from the respondent for the period 1.7.97 to 26.10.98 i.e. the date when the respondent had submitted the building plan for sanction and after that the appellant had no right to charge any non-construction fee from the respondent till the delivery of sanctioned building plan to the respondents. The demand of Rs. 76,000 raised by the appellant on account of non construction fee vide letter dated 17.5.2000 (Ex. R-14) was quashed.

2. Briefly stated the facts are that Plot No. 625 measuring 500 sq. yards was allotted to Sh. Jagan Nath Gupta in Urban Estate, Phase I, Bathinda. He sold it to one Sh. Kesar Chand Jain son of Sh. Milkhi Ram at Chandigarh who in turn sold it to the respondent vide sale deed No. 2754 dated 11.8.1987. Since then, the respondents were in possession of the plot as owners. They applied with the appellant for the transfer