CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.4004 OF 2011 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: MARCH 22 ,2011 Oriental Insurance Company Limited, Chandigarh .....Petitioner VERSUS Umesh Juneja and anot her ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. Ashwani Talwar, Advocate, for the petitioner. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The vehicle owned by respondent No.1 bearing registration No.HR-55-2883 TATA 407 was insured with the petitioner-Insurance Company for one year upto 17.2.2006. This vehicle met with an accident, for which an FIR was lodged on 12.9.2005. The vehicle was completely damaged. Huge amount was required to repair the same. The Insurance Company accordingly suggested to respondent No.1 not to get the vehicle repaired but hand over the vehicle to the petitioner on payment. The claim, however, could not be settled, when respondent No.1 approached the Permanent Lok Adalat Public Utility Service, Gurgaon. Petitioner- CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.4004 OF 2011 :{ 2 }: Insurance Company contested the claim and offered a sum of `58,000/- on 17.1.2007. The respondent, however, did not accept the same. A known usual plea is raised to say that Company was informed about the accident late. As per the petitioner, on survey it was found that the loss assessed was `58,000/- and so the Company had agreed to settle the claim for this amount. Lok Adalat has allowed the claim by observing that accident is proved and so also its insurance. The fact that the claim was settled for `58,000/- was found not established. Before the Lok Adalat, it was disclosed by counsel for the petitioner that 50% of the amount of the total claim of `1,40,000/- has already been released. Even this fact was disputed. The Lok Adalat accordingly directed that if that be so, the same payment be adjusted and allowed the claim for payment of `1,10,000/-. The petitioner is further required to pay full amount of the claim i.e. `1,40,000/- if respondent No.1 handed over the salvage of the damaged truck to the Insurance Company. The Lok Adalat has fairly passed this order on the basis of material. There is no ground made out to interfere in the impugned award. The writ petition, therefore, is dismissed. March 22,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE