Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 598 · Decided 13 December 2000
Life Insurance Corporation of India and ORS. v. SMT. Asha Goel and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 598 · [2000] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 646
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4186/1988
- Decided
- 13 December 2000
- Bench
- B.N. KIRPAL, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950 : Article 226--- -Writ Jurisdiction of High Courts-Life insurance coverage for husband-Died of cardiac arrest a year C thereafter-Wife claiming the insured amount-LIC repudiating her claim on the ground that deceased withheld correct information regarding his health at High Court for a direction of payment of the sum assured--Objection raised by the Corporation on maintainability of the writ petition-Single Judge allowed the writ petition holding that liability of the Corporation was statutory- -On D appeal, Division Bench of the High Court remanded case back to
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