High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCWP/18095/2017disposed of

Cholamandalam Ms General Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Anil Kumar And ANR

2022-09-21Mr. Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj10 pages

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. -) 0)1 2 The instant Civil Writ petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of writ in the nature of Certiorari for quashing the impugned award dated 23.12.2016 (Annexure-P-4) passed by respondent No.2-the Permanent Lok Adalat (Public Utility Services), Bhiwani and a further prayer to stay the execution of the impugned award during the pendency of the present writ petition. 2.

Briefly summarized, the facts of the instant case are that the respondent No.1-claimant was owner of vehicle bearing registration No.HR69A-1684 which was insured vide policy No. 3379/00910415/000/01 w.e.f. 09.07.2014 to 08.07.2015 for a sum of Rs. 9,00,000/-. The said vehicle was stolen on 10.11.2014 and FIR No. 256 dated 11.11.2014 was registered in reference to the aforesaid incident. Rajbir son of Devatiya, driver of the vehicle

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