Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 190 · Decided 14 February 2020
M/S Baspa Organics Limited v. United India Insurance Company LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 190 · [2020] 2 S.C.R. 843
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 13401/2015
- Decided
- 14 February 2020
- Bench
- MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR, R. SUBHASH REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986: Fire and Special Peril policy - Insurance claim - Repudiation of claim - On the ground of suppression of material fact of not being duly licensed for storage and use of Hexane at the factory - Held: In terms of either Article 3 or 7 of 1976, the Appellant was required to obtain a license for the purposes of storing Hexane in excess of 20 kilolitres - The quantity of Hexane stored by the Appellant was more than 20 kilolitres - In the absence of a license, the Appellant could not have lawfully stored Hexane -
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