CWP No. 3049 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH CWP No. 3049 of 2010 Date of decision July 8, 2011 Neelam Lamba ....... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ........Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present:- Mr. Parminder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Arvind Mittal, Additional Advocate General, Punjab. Mr. Rajesh Sharama, Advocate for respondent No.3. Ms. Seema Pasricha, Advocate for respondent No.4. **** 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? No 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest?No K. Kannan, J (oral). 1. The petitioner is aggrieved about the decision of the District Forum which has, while allowing a claim under the life insurance policy granted the compensation against LIC and given to LIC a liberty to recover the same from the petitioner who was admittedly an agent and who had secured the proposal. The petitioner was certainly an aggrieved party rendered through the decision of the District Forum and he shall be competent to prefer an appeal under Section 15 of the Consumer Protection Act. The matter would require an adjudication on facts and I am CWP No. 3049 of 2010 2 of the view that the appropriate remedy would be only to challenge the decision of the District Forum before the State Commission. 2. The writ petition is disposed of permitting the petitioner to file an appeal as an aggrieved person under Section 15 and if it is filed within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of copy of the order, the State Commission shall entertain the same and consider the prayer of exclusion of time that may have been occasioned by the pendency of the case before this Court. 3. This order makes no reference to the merits of the claim of the petitioner and it shall be considered in the light of the relevant facts and law involved in the case by the State Commission itself. 4. The writ petition is disposed of as above. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE July 8 , 2011 archana