Date of filing :11.07.2023 Date of order :03.02.2026 MAHARASHTRA STATE CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION, MUMBAI, BENCH AT AURANGABAD.

FIRST APPEAL NO. : 989 OF 2023 IN COMPLAINT CASE NO.: 225 OF 2022 DISTRICT CONSUMER COMMISSION : JALNA Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd, …Appellant

4th floor, Chintamani Avenue, (Adv.M.C.Mene)

Next to Virvani Industrial Estate, Western Express Highway, Goregaon (E), Mumbai.

VERSUS

1. Manikrao Rambhau Tangde, …Respondents R/o Wadod Tangda, Tq. Bhokardhan, (In person)

Dist.Jalna.

2. Harnabai Manikrao Tangde, R/o Wadod Tangda, Tq. Bhokardhan, Dist.Jalna.

CORAM : Milind.S.Sonawane, Hon’ble Presiding Member.

Nagesh C.Kumbre, Hon’ble Member.

J U D G M E N T (Delivered on 03/02/2026)

Per Milind S.Sonawane, Hon’ble Presiding Member.

This is an appeal challenging the correctness and legality of the judgment and order passed by the learned District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Jalna (the ‘District Commission’ for short) in C.C.No.225/2022, whereby the District Commission directed the appellant to pay to respondent no.1 sum of Rs.15,643/-towards the crop insurance claim along with the interest @ 12% p.a. from the date of filing the complaint, within