JUDGMENT

Daya Chaudhary, President.—Appellant/opposite party-Indian Overseas Bank has filed the present appeal under Section 15 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (Hereinafter to be called as “The Act, 1986”), to challenge the impugned order dated 23.04.2019 passed in CC No.159 of 2019 by District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (now, “Commission”), Amritsar (in short, “the District Commission”).

2. It would be apposite to mention that hereinafter the parties will be referred, as have been arrayed before the District Commission.

3. The respondent/complainant-Mr. Rakesh Singh filed a complaint under Section 12 of The Act, 1986 (as amended up to date) before District Commission, Amritsar; which was allowed, vide order dated 23.04.2019 with the directions to the opposite party to re-credit an amount of Rs.99,800/- to the account of the complainant within a period of 7 days from the date of receipt of copy of the order. The opposite party was also directed to pay compensation to the tune of Rs.40,000/-, along with litigation expenses, which were assessed at Rs.10,000/-.

4. As per averments made in the complaint, the respondent/complainant was having a Saving Account with the opposi