{"id":99348,"date":"2008-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-oriental-insurance-co-ltd-vs-sri-b-k-babu-on-22-october-2008"},"modified":"2017-10-15T01:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T19:34:08","slug":"the-oriental-insurance-co-ltd-vs-sri-b-k-babu-on-22-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-oriental-insurance-co-ltd-vs-sri-b-k-babu-on-22-october-2008","title":{"rendered":"The Oriental Insurance Co Ltd vs Sri B K Babu on 22 October, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Oriental Insurance Co Ltd vs Sri B K Babu on 22 October, 2008<\/div>\n
Author: N.Ananda<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Karnataka High Court The Oriental Insurance Co Ltd vs Sri B K Babu on 22 October, 2008 Author: N.Ananda wmvr: uwum ur Ixamw\ufb02imzwa Hi\ufb02\u00e9\ufb02 AA\u00a7’.;\u00a31?.JR’\u00a5 OF \u00a7(ARNA’i”A\u00a7(A HIGH COUR”? OF E(ARNA?AE(A HIGH COURT OF KARNAYAKA HIGH COURT OF %(ARNA”\u00a5”A%\u00a3! HEGH CI 5-‘ II E3 \ufb02\ufb01’ Iif\ufb01f C9UR.’I”‘ O1′ ERMIATAKA AI’ \ufb01al\ufb02\ufb01\ufb01\ufb01\ufb01\ufb02\ufb01 zzarza mm am: 22″‘ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Oriental Insurance Co Ltd vs Sri B K Babu on 22 October, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court & High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-oriental-insurance-co-ltd-vs-sri-b-k-babu-on-22-october-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Oriental Insurance Co Ltd vs Sri B K Babu on 22 October, 2008 - 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