{"id":196692,"date":"2002-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nitish-kumar-and-ors-vs-united-india-insurance-co-ltd-on-10-december-2002"},"modified":"2019-02-09T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T12:29:20","slug":"nitish-kumar-and-ors-vs-united-india-insurance-co-ltd-on-10-december-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nitish-kumar-and-ors-vs-united-india-insurance-co-ltd-on-10-december-2002","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar And Ors. vs United India Insurance Co. Ltd. &#8230; on 10 December, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">National Consumer Disputes Redressal<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Nitish Kumar And Ors. vs United India Insurance Co. Ltd. &#8230; on 10 December, 2002<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: D W Member, R Rao, B Taimni<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>D.P. Wadhwa, J. (President)<\/p>\n<p>1. This is a classic case which shows to what extent provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 can be misused. In this complaint there are three different claims: (i) for Rs. 3.36 crores by the father of the deceased workers, (ii) Rs. 1.44 lakhs again by the father of the deceased worker and (iii) for rent by way of compensation amount  to Rs. 10.00 lakhs by Pramila Devi, owner of the shop premises where the worker who died who employed. It is alleged that Pramila Devi in the name of M\/s. M\/s. Pramila Devi was running a cement godown\/shop which was insured with the opposite parties-Insurance Company. The insured amount was Rs. 50,000\/-. It is alleged that on 2.9.2000 water pipe in the premises where the shop was located got burst and 325 bags of cement were damped which were of the value of Rs.48,000\/-. On 8.9.2000 it was found that there were lot of snakes in the shop premises as cement by that time had become solid. Because of snake bites 20 persons received injuries out of which 8 persons died and 12 persons were cured. It is alleged that under the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act employees will be entitled to claim compensation. That may be so but for that purpose compensation under the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act is to be looked into on a complaint filed for the compensation. It is not understood how claims for crores of rupees can be lodged in the National Commission.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. We find the complaint to be thoroughly misuse of the process of law. It is dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Consumer Disputes Redressal Nitish Kumar And Ors. vs United India Insurance Co. Ltd. &#8230; on 10 December, 2002 Bench: D W Member, R Rao, B Taimni JUDGMENT D.P. Wadhwa, J. (President) 1. This is a classic case which shows to what extent provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 can be misused. 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