IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (215)

RSA-653-2001(O&M)

Reserved on : 16.03.2026 Pronounced on : 24.03.2026 Uploaded on : 25.03.2026 Pargan Singh ……Appellant Versus Life Insurance Corporation of India and Others ……Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMARINDER SINGH GREWAL ****

Present: Mr. Vijay Kumar Goyal, Advocate, for the appellant.

Mr. Prateek Mahajan, Advocate, and Mr. Daanish Mahajan, Advocate, for respondents No.1 to 4.

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AMARINDER SINGH GREWAL, J.

1. The plaintiff is the appellant before this court, challenging the judgment and decree dated 18.01.1999 passed by the learned trial court dismissing his suit for declaration and the judgment dated 09.08.2000 passed by the learned First appellate court vide which the appeal preferred by him against the aforesaid judgment and decree passed by the learned trial court, has also been dismissed.

2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that the wife of the plaintiff, namely Simarjeet Kaur, had obtained a life insurance policy on 14.08.1989 from the Life Insurance Corporation of India (hereinafter referred to as “LIC”). At the relevant time, she was allegedly suffering from chronic fever and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma