Procedure on [admission] of complaint

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....   (b)  where the opposite party on receipt of a complaint referred to him under clause (a) denies or disputes the allegations contained in the complaint, or omits or fails to take any action to represent his case within the time given by the District Forum, the District Forum shall proceed to settle the consumer dispute in the manner specified in clauses (c) to (g);           (c)  where the complaint alleges a defect in the goods which cannot be determined without proper analysis or test of the goods, the District Forum shall obtain a sample of the goods from the complainant, seal it and authenticate it in the manner pre­scribed and refer the sample so sealed to the ap....

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....of the methods of analysis or test adopted by the appropri­ate laboratory, the District Forum shall require the opposite party or the complainant to submit in writing his objections in regard to the report made by the appropriate laboratory;           (g)  the District Forum shall thereafter give a reasonable opportunity to the complainant as well as the opposite party of being heard as to the correctness or otherwise of the report made by the appropriate laboratory and also as to the objection made in relation thereto under clause (f) and issue an appropriate order under section 14. (2) The District Forum shall, if the [complaints admitted] by it under section 12 relates to goods ....

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....trict Forum may either dismiss the complaint for default or decide it on merits.] (3) No proceedings complying with the procedure laid down in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be called in question in any court on the ground that the principles of natural justice have not been complied with.  [(3A) Every complaint shall be heard as expeditiously as possible and endeavour shall be made to decide the complaint within a period of three months from the date of receipt of notice by opposite party where the complaint does not require analysis or testing of commodities and within five months if it requires analysis or testing of commodities : Provided that no adjournment shall be ordinarily granted by the District Forum unless sufficie....

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.... analysis or test from the appropriate laboratory or from any other relevant source;           (v)  issuing of any commission for the examination of any witness; and          (vi)  any other matter which may be prescribed. (5) Every proceeding before the District Forum shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), and the District Forum shall be deemed to be a civil court for the purposes of section 195, and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).  [(6) Where the complainant is a consumer referred to in sub-clause (iv) of clau....