I.A. No. 10820/2017 and I.A. No. 10821/2017 (for early hearing)

V.K. Jain, Presiding Member—Hearing of the revision petitions is preponed. The applications are disposed of.

RP/1738/2017 and RP/1739/2017

These revision petitions are directed against the order of the State Commission dated 31.01.2017 whereby appeal filed by the petitioner company against the order of the District Forum dated 03.09.2015 came to be dismissed on merits. The respondent owned a truck which he had got insured with the petitioner company w.e.f. 01.06.2014 to 31.05.2015. The aforesaid truck met with an accident on 15.07.2017. The claim lodged by the respondent/complainant was repudiated on the ground that on the date, the truck met with an accident, the vehicle did not have a valid route permit, the same having already expired on 28.06.2014. Being aggrieved from the repudiation of the claim, the respondent/complainant approached the concerned District Forum by way of a consumer complaint.

2. The complaint was resisted by the petitioner company primarily on the ground on which the claim was repudiated. The District Forum having ruled in favour of the respondent/complainant, the insurer company approache