Mr. Justice J.B. Garg, President — The Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Union Territory, Chandigarh, held that the complaint of Dr. B.B. Goyal, Reader in Public Administration, Punjab University, Chandigarh, succeeds and the Director, Postal Life Insurance, Calcutta through Chief Postmaster General, PLI Section, Punjab Circle, Chandigarh was directed to treat the whole life policy of the complainant upto the age of 60 years and not 58 years. Besides this a sum of Rs. 5,000/- was awarded as compensation and further a sum of Rs. 1,500/- as costs. Aggrieved against this judgment dated 12.5.1997, the present appeal has been attempted by the Director, Postal Life Insurance.

2. Briefly the facts are that the complainant is a senior teacher in Punjab University and he applied for a convertible whole life policy requesting that it should mature at the age of 60 years. This was admissible according to the brochure published and supplied to the aforesaid complainant. This proposal made on 8.2.1994 was accepted on 18.2.1994. Subsequently on 18.7.1994 the Director, PLI, Calcutta conveyed that the policy would be upto the maximum 58 years and premium should not have been calculated believ