IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.7581 of 2010 RAM PUKAR SHARMA Versus THE NATIONAL INSURANCE CO.LTD. ----------- 2 30.4.2010 Heard learned counsel for the parties. Petitioner wants payment of insurance claim against Insurance Policy No. 6301903/99. It was a third party insurance covering the period of 2.8.1999 to 1.8.2000. Theft of the vehicle was committed, criminal case lodged including a claim by the petitioner against the Insurance Company. Many letters have been exchanged including legal notice but the issue has not been reached its finality. That is the background under which the present writ application has been filed. Stand of the learned counsel representing the Insurance Company is that third party insurance does not create any liability upon the company to pay for the loss. If the case is open and shut as has been submitted by learned counsel for the Insurance then the Court failed to understand as to why the Insurance Company has waited so long to deliver the final decision in the matter. The matter has dragged more than ten years. The Insurance Company is directed to take a decision in the matter and communicate the petitioner final outcome preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of production or communication of a copy of this order. - 2 - This writ application is disposed of with the above direction. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)