ORDER :

MR. JUSTICE B.C. KANDPAL, PRESIDENT

1. This is complainant’s appeal under Section 15 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 against the order dated 13.7.2011 passed by the District Forum, Udham Singh Nagar in consumer complaint No. 37 of 2010, whereby the District Forum has dismissed the consumer complaint filed by the complainant.

2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case as mentioned in the consumer complaint, are that the complainant is having a saving bank account No. 10795301768 with the opposite party No. 1-State Bank of India, Kashipur. It was alleged that on 20.3.2010, theft took place in the house of the complainant and in the said theft, the cheque book of the complainant issued by the opposite party No. 1 besides other articles was stolen. On 21.3.2010, there was Sunday and the intimation with regard to the theft of the cheque book was given by the complainant to the opposite party No. 1 on 22.3.2010 and on the same day, the complainant got the duplicate cheque book issued and the complainant came to know that sum of Rs. 90,000 has been withdrawn from his account by use of cheque No. 175369 dated 20.3.2010 by forging his signatures. The said cheque did not contain the