1. The petitioner before this Court has challenged the order passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission [in short, "the National Commission"] dated 16.01.2020, by which the order of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Uttar Pradesh [in short, "the State Commission"] has been upheld and the complaint of the petitioner has been dismissed on the ground that he was not a 'consumer' as defined under S.2(l)(d) of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (in short, "the Act").

3. As has already been stated above, these findings of the State Commission have also been reiterated by the National Commission in its order dated 16.01.2020. The petitioner now urges before this Court that he is a consumer for the reason that although the machine was used, in a manner of speaking, for commercial purposes, but by and large the machine was used only for the purposes of self - employment. Therefore, he would be covered under the explanation given in S.2