1. The appellant is a Sugar Factory, which operates in Gurdaspur, Punjab.

1. Leave granted.

1. Leave granted.

1. This appeal is directed against the order passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission by which complaint filed by the appellant came to be disposed of as follows:

1. The inherited wealth and that too not in the direct line of succession is the bone of contention as the substratum of the dispute inter se the parties.

1. The appellant has approached this Court being aggrieved by the judgment and order dated 1st November 2017, passed by the Division Bench of the Madras High Court in C.M.A. (MD) No. 345 of 2016 and C.M.P. (MD) No. 4867 of 2016...

1. This judgment has been divided into the following sections to facilitate analysis:

1. As common question of law and facts arise in this group of appeals, all these appeals are decided and disposed of together by this common judgment and order.

1. Leave granted.

1. We have heard learned counsel for the parties at length.