law: 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.