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11.   Aggrieved by the order of the District Forum, the respondent/ HUDA approached the State Commission by way of First Appeal, being no. 1719 of 2008. The State Commission vide its order dated 15.02.2012 held as under:

"Complainant preferred a complaint bearing complaint no. 531 of 2006 titled 'Ghansham Dass Gupta vs HUDA before the District Forum in which District Forum, on plea being raised by the opposite parties, pursuance to agreement between the parties, referred the dispute to the arbitration. Arbitrator entered reference and gave his award on 09.07.2002. Complainant filed objections against the said award, which were dismissed by learned Additional District Judge, Karnal vide order dated 09.07.2022 and thereafter complainant came with the present complaint. Certainly, the matter stood resolved by the arbitrator to whom the case referred by the District Forum, in view of the arbitration clause subsisting, in terms of the agreement executed between the parties. Merely because the award of arbitrator was not favourable to the complainant, more particularly when the objections filed against the said award were dismissed by the District Judge, certainly the decision had attained finality. Filing of complaint thereafter was an act of trying to set aside the judgment of District Judge by way of consumer complaint, an act unknown to the hierarchy to judicial system. Still complaint being filed and allowed more particularly when the decision on earlier complaint has already been become final, was an act trying to overreach the judicial system.