ORDER (ORAL)

V.K. Jain, Presiding Member—The appellants before this Commission are stated to be the Directors of the Respondent M/s. Ansal Housing & Construction Limited. A consumer complaint was instituted by the complainants namely Sunaini Sharma and Dharminder Sharma against the above referred company and was allowed by the State Commission.

2. The order of the State Commission was upheld by this Commission with some modification.

3. In the execution application instituted by the complainants, the appellants were impleaded as parties on the application filed by them, on the ground that they were Directors of the company are as per record of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. It would thus be seen that the appellants were not parties to the consumer complaint and the said complaint was allowed only against the company.

4. The issue of liability of the Directors of a company in a case where the order is passed only against the company came up for consideration of a Three-Members Bench of this Commission in EA/80/2016 in CC/14/2015 Rajnish Kumar Rohatgi & Anr. Vs. M/s. United Limited and Anr. decided on 08.1.2019 and the following view was taken:

“40. For the reasons stated herein