{"id":256128,"date":"2009-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-new-india-assurance-co-ltd-vs-gopinath-so-venugopal-on-11-december-2009"},"modified":"2018-12-28T21:43:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:13:45","slug":"the-new-india-assurance-co-ltd-vs-gopinath-so-venugopal-on-11-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-new-india-assurance-co-ltd-vs-gopinath-so-venugopal-on-11-december-2009","title":{"rendered":"The New India Assurance Co Ltd vs Gopinath S\/O Venugopal on 11 December, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The New India Assurance Co Ltd vs Gopinath S\/O Venugopal on 11 December, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S.Abdul Nazeer<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">  . ::;~&lt;,s?g:,::::gi;;;:~;:::;, ..\n\n \n\nE3 T&#039;\u00a7\u00a7\u00a7\u00a7 \u00a7&#039;i\u00a7\ufb01*\u00a7&#039;\u00a7 SQEERY Q? 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