law: Consumer Protection Act, 1986 
  21. Jurisdiction of the National Commission 
  
  
  Subject to the other provisions of this Act,
  
  the National Commission shall have jurisdiction –
  (a) to entertain –
  ( i )
  
  complaints where the value of the goods or services and compensation, if any,
  
  claimed exceeds rupees
  twenty  lakhs ; and
  (ii) appeals against
  
  the orders of any State Commission; 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 State Commission where it appears to the National Commission
  
  that such State Commission has exercised a jurisdiction not vested in it by
  
  law, or has failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested, or has acted in the
  
  exercise of its jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity.