the approach of the District Forum. Instead of examining whether the service obtained by the complainant was for a ‘commercial purpose’, it examined the question of whether the complainant falls within the definition of ‘person’. Neither was such an objection raised by the OP in the version originally submitted before the District Forum nor was such a contention orally taken before the NCDRC. We fail to understand how the NCDRC failed to grasp the exact nature of the maintainability challenge. Be that as it may. 12. It is against the above backdrop that we are called upon to determine the present lis. Instead of remanding the matter back to the Consumer Forum we intend to decide the maintainability challenge here itself. The question that has eluded three judicial forums has now to be settled once and for all. That question simply is: Whether the service obtained by the complainant was for a commercial purpose? 613. Section 2 (7) of the Act defines a consumer to mean: Section 2 (7)