Sunil Kumar Garg, President—This complaint under Section 17 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act of 1986”) has been filed by the complainant against the opposite party, which are three in number, on 5.5.2006 with the prayer that the opposite party be directed to make the payment of Rs. 36,78,729.00 to the complainant.

2. The case of the complainant as put forward by him in the complaint is as follows:

The complainant-M/s. Rigid Global (India) is dealing in the office -furniture exclusively of imported quality having its offices-cum-godown at different locations and its head office is situated at Jaipur and the business is being carried out through Mr. Subash Vasvani, who is Principal Officer as well as duly constituted attorney for handling all sort of business activities.

The opposite party No.1 is an Insurance Company having its head office at New Delhi and also having one of the branches at Jaipur (opposite party No.2) and also having one of the agents/brokers at Jaipur (opposite party No.3).

The case of the complainant is that the complainant had taken insurance policy from the opposite party No.1 Insurance Company known as “Trade Pr