Ahmedabad: The Consumer Court has ordered the life insurance corporation to pay Rs 14.60 lakh for 19 different policies with accidental death benefits by considering the killings of intentional people.
In this case, residents of Vastrapur, Narendrasinh Parmar, were shot dead at close range by unknown attackers on March 3, 2009 in the marble complex in Mithakhali.
Police Navrangpura submitted FIR but then closed the case when crime was still not detected on who killed Parmar and why the contractor was shot.
This case was controversial with the police unrolling the business competition behind the murder.
However, the murder remained a mystery with the police who submitted a Summary report A.
Widow Parmar, Chetna, claimed insurance payments for 19 life insurance policies that were different from the benefits of Parmar owned.
The claim was rejected in the field that Parmar was killed and died of a bullet wound and not in an accident.
In 2012, Chetna approached the consumer dispute of the Redressal Forum, Ahmedabad (additional) but the Forum rejected its complaint which said that this was a murder of sympathizers and could not be considered an accidental death.
The dispute reached the Gujarat state consumer dispute commission, which ordered an insurance company to pay the claim that was held that Parmar was not a party for murder and did not play a role in the provocation and the direct cause of the action was not the result of intentional actions by.
Insured.
The consumer commission also said that there was a possibility that an unknown attacker did not want to kill Parmar because the shooting had occurred from behind and an unknown attacker could not identify him.
In addition, there is no evidence of the record to indicate that the attacker is intended to kill Parmar only.
The Commission also said that the victim did not play an active role in the incident and also did not lead to crime.
Furthermore, said that the victim did not know or hope for an unreasonable event.
The Commission concluded that there was no evidence brought on the record to determine that it was murder, and therefore it must be treated as an unintentional death as far as life insurance concerning.
Ahmedabad: Consumer Court ordered insurance payments
