Though in your question you have mentioned district court, it appears that you are referring to district consumer forum.
Please note that as per Section 11 of the Consumer Protection Act, the district consumer forum has jurisdiction to entertain complaints where the value of the goods or services and the compensation, if any, claimed does not exceed Rs. 20 lakh.
You have yourself mentioned that you had filed claim for compensation of Rs. 15 lakh. So, if the value of the plot and compensation claimed exceeds Rs. 20 lakh, then the district forum will not have jurisdiction. I don’t know how you are saying that your claim is actually only Rs. 3 lakh when you first mentioned that your compensation claim itself was Rs. 15 lakh. You could have revised your claim appropriately to bring it within the jurisdiction of the district forum before its dismissal.
Now that your complaint has already been dismissed by district forum, you can appeal against this decision in the state commission. The district forum may have power to review its own order.
Depending on what is the nature of the order passed by the district forum, you may also perhaps have the option of filing a complaint before the state commission with an application for condonation of delay (since now it appears to be time-barred after 3 years). However, get this issue examined from some local lawyer after showing him all relevant papers, in particular the order passed by the district forum.
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