1. Being aggrieved by the order dated 07.02.2013 passed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) under Section 26(2) of the Competition Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') closing the proceedings under that Section, the appellant have come before us by way of an appeal under Section 53-B of the Act. From the record, it appears that the appellants had taken auto finance services from the Opposite Parties Nos. 3, 4 and 5 before the CCI. The appellants have joined as many as 163 auto finance business firms as the respondents. According to the appellants, all these respondents are the Members of a registered Association called 'the Andhra Pradesh Hire Purchase Association' and it is in that capacity that they have been joined as parties to this appeal as also before the CCI. It is then made out that these opponents were controlling 60% of the entire auto-finance services market in the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and that they were acting in violation of the provisions of the A.P. (Telangana Area) Money Lender's Act, 1349 Fasli. It is made out that under that Act, a person, individual or the partnership firm, conducting money lending business, had to obtai