ORDER

D.S. Tripathi, President.—This appeal under Section 15 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 has been preferred against the impugned judgment and order dated 12.11.2018 passed by the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Haridwar (in short “The District Commission”) in consumer complaint No. 121 of 2016; Seema Sharma, Advocate Vs. Pollution Control Project Board and others, by which the consumer complaint has been allowed and the appellant (opposite party No. 3 to the consumer complaint) as well as other opposite parties (who have not been arrayed as party by the appellant to the instant appeal), have been directed to pay sum of Rs. 5,00,000/- to the respondent – complainant, besides Rs. 1,00,000/- towards compensation and litigation expenses etc., in all, Rs. 6,00,000/-, together with interest @6% p.a. from the date of institution of the consumer complaint till payment.

2. Facts giving rise to this appeal, in brief, are that according to the consumer complaint, the complainant is a permanent resident of Vivek Vihar, Ranipur More, Haridwar, District Haridwar. She is regularly paying water tax / house tax, sewer tax, income tax and road tax etc. to the department con