Supreme Court of India

Divisional Manager, United India Insurance Co.ltd. and Anr. v. Samir Chandra Chaudhary

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Bench Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 14 July 2005

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Consumer Protection Act, 1986: Claim for damages of vehicle-Admission by complainant that accident was caused on account of storm-Loss due to storm not covered by Insurance Policy-Later plea of complainant that theJactum of storm wrongly stated­ Certificate to the effect of non-existence of storm by meteorological authority produced-The same neither exhibited nor witness examined to prove it­ Claim al/owed by Courts below-On appeal, held: since the fact of accident due to storm was admitted by the complainant, the onus to_ prove to the contrary was on him-Hence matter remitted to N~tional…

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