ORDER :

Mr. Justice B.S. Verma, President-This appeal under Section 15 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 is directed against the order dated 2.6.2018 passed by the District Forum, Almora in consumer complaint No. 94 of 2017.

2. Briefly stated the facts giving rise to the appeal are that the respondent No. 1 - complainant is a consumer of Bharti Airtel Limited since last five years’ and is having the SIM card No. 8991525190000610670UH5 and mobile No. 7739402122 of the said telecom company. In the month of May, 2017, when the complainant was posted at Gurez Sector, Jammu & Kashmir in 13th Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army, there was no mobile tower at his posting place, on account whereof, the complainant was unable to use his mobile phone. On 18.5.2017, some unknown person got the duplicate SIM of the above-mentioned mobile number of the complainant issued and withdrew a sum of Rs. 2,87,630 from account No. 20044488644 of the complainant between the period from 21.5.2017 to 27.5.2017 by using online services (Paytm; Airtel Money; Snapdeal & M Paisa). The SIM No. 8991525190000610670UH5 was being used by the complainant at his posting places and at present, the said connection number