CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) KESHAVADAS Jamanadas died of jaundice on 4-11-1966. The Life Insurance Corporation of India seeks to repudiate a policy of insurance which Keshavdas Jamanadas had taken out about one and a half years earlier on the ground that in his personal statement he had stated that he had not suffered from any illness and had not consulted any medical practitioner within the last five years when in fact he had once suffered from indigestion for a few days and had taken a cihoornam from an Ayurvedic practitioner, The jaundice of which Keshavdas Jamanadas died had not the remotest connection with the indigestion from which he suffered for a few days several months earlier. But the Life Insurance Corporation wants to profit by the inaccuracy and seeks to deprive the assured s dependents of the amount of insurance. I consider the attitude of the Life Insurance Corporation highly improper and grotesquely unfair. But the learned counsel for the Life Insurance Corporation urges that such is the rigour of the law and that the Corporation is within its rights in repudiating the policy. Let me examine whether the law is indeed so harsh and the dependents of Keshavadas Jamanada

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