1. This application styled as “an application under Article 226/227 of the
Constitution of India” is directed against an order dated May 10, 2024
passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
(hereafter “NCDRC”) thereby dismissing the petitioner’s revision against an
order dated December 15, 2022 passed by the State Consumer Disputes
Redressal Commission.
2. Since this application has been styled as one under Article 226/227 of the
Constitution of India, a point of maintainability thereof was taken by the
learned Advocates appearing for the respondents at the very threshold. It
was submitted that a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India
can be entertained only if the same is directed against an authority
answering the definition of “State” under Article 12 of the Constitution of
India. However, since in the present writ petition only private parties are
arrayed as respondents, the same cannot be entertained as a writ petition
under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.