JUDGMENT

Mr. Justice S. Baidya, President, Member - This appeal filed on 21.09.2015 by the appellants, Life Insurance Corporation of India and its Divisional Manager and Zonal Manager under section 15 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 is directed against the Judgment and Order dated 10.06.2015 passed by the Ld. District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (in short District Forum), West Tripura, Agartala, in case No. CC-76/2014, whereby Ld. District Forum allowed the complaint filed under section 12 of the C.P. Act, 1986 filed by the complainant, the respondent No.1 herein, directing the opposite party, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI) to pay to the complainant the sum assured Rs. 1.25 lakhs with interest @9% per annum from the date of repudiation of the claim on 28.03.2013 till the payment is made with a further direction to the said opposite party to pay Rs. 5,000/- as compensation for mental agony and harassment together with Rs. 2,000/- as costs of litigation.

The case of the appellants, as narrated in the memo of appeal, in brief, is that the respondent No.1 Smt. Anita Das being the complainant filed a complaint under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 b