D.P.MOHAPATRA, SHIVARAJ V.PATIL
JIT RAM SHIV KUMAR – Appellant
Versus
NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. – Respondent
Shivaraj V. Patil, J.—Leave granted.
1. In this appeal the controversy raised is limited in regard to payment of interest and it arises out of the order passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission on execution side. For the purpose of disposal of this appeal it is unnecessary to narrate the facts in detail. Hence we briefly state them as under :
The appellant filed Original Petition No. 30 of 1992 before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (for short the ‘National Commission’) against the respondent National Insurance Co. Ltd. The said petition was allowed by the order of the National Commission dated 15.4.1993. Operative portion of it reads :
“There is, therefore, no doubt that the repudiation of the claim by the opposite party-Insurance Company is mala fide. There has also been inordinate delay in repudiating the claim depriving the complainant of a sum of Rs. 8,20,575/- which obviously would have caused serious inconvenience and financial embarrassment of the insured. We therefore order as under :
The opposite party — Insurance Co. should pay to the complainant-insured as under :
1. Rs. 8,20,575/- the full insured value of the consignment, ac
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