Delay in filing the Revision Petitions is condoned.

We have heard learned Counsel for the Petitioner and perused the impugned order dated 22.12.2017 passed by the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Maharashtra, Circuit Bench at Aurangabad (for short “the State Commission”), whereby the order passed by the District Forum has been affirmed and the claims of the Complainants/Respondents have been upheld on the ground that the Complainants have suffered loss and damages due to failure of the banana crop on account of adverse parameters of weather.

Brief facts of the case are that the Complainants are the farmers and had become members of the Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme as introduced by Agriculture Department, Government of India and made applicable by Government of Maharashtra to the extent of Banana crop and have also paid required amount of insurance premium to the Petitioner Insurance Company through the Bank (Respondent No.2). The crop was insured for the period from 1.11.2014 to 31.7.2015 against adverse weather parameters. A third party had installed automatic weather stations and the data recorded by these stations was to be used for assessing the insuranc