{"id":68781,"date":"2008-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-nagaraj-vs-the-united-india-insurance-co-ltd-on-27-august-2008"},"modified":"2016-02-19T02:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:33:49","slug":"sri-nagaraj-vs-the-united-india-insurance-co-ltd-on-27-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-nagaraj-vs-the-united-india-insurance-co-ltd-on-27-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"Sri Nagaraj vs The United India Insurance Co Ltd on 27 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
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