law: The Competition Act, 2002 
  34. Power to award
  
  compensation.-
  1.  
  
    Without
  
  prejudice to any other provisions contained in this Act, any person may make an
  
  application to the Commission for an order for the recovery of compensation
  
  from any enterprise for any loss or damage shown to have been suffered, by such
  
  person as a result of any contravention of the provisions of Chapter II, having
  
  been committed by such enterprise.
  2.  
  
    The
  
  Commission may, after an inquiry made into the allegations mentioned in the
  
  application made under sub-section (1), pass an order directing the enterprise
  
  to make payment to the applicant, of the amount determined by it as realisable
  
  from the enterprise as compensation for the loss or damage caused to the
  
  applicant as a result of any contravention of the provisions of Chapter II
  
  having been committed by such enterprise.
  3.  
  
    Where
  
  any loss or damage referred to in sub-section (1) is caused to numerous persons
  
  having the same interest, one or more of such persons may, with the permission
  
  of the Commission, make an application under that sub-section for and on behalf
  
  of, o for the benefit of, the persons so interested, and thereupon, the
  
  provisions of rule 8 of Order 1 of the First Schedule to the Code of Civil
  
  Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), shall apply subject to the modification that every
  
  reference therein to a suit or decree shall be construed as a reference to the
  
  application before the Commission and the order of the Commission thereon.