Consumer Protection Act, 1986
17. Jurisdiction of the State Commission
Subject to the other provisions of this Act,
the State Commission shall have jurisdiction –
(a) to entertain -
( i )
complaints where the value of the goods or services and compensation, if any,
claimed exceeds rupees [42 five lakhs but does not
exceed rupees twenty lakhs 42]; and
(ii) appeals against
the orders of any District Forum within the State; and
(b) to call for the records and pass
appropriate orders in any consumer dispute which is pending before or has been
decided by any District Forum within the State where it appears to the State
Commission that such District Forum has exercised a jurisdiction not vested in
it by law, or has failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested or has acted in
exercise of its jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity.