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Legal Manager United India Insurance Co. Ltd.,Angul v. Bharati Mohanty

Orissa HC8 Mar 2025FAO/97/2025

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What is this about?

Lok Adalat settlement disposing FAO No.97 of 2025 (compensation appeal): United India Insurance Company Ltd., Angul v. Bharati Mohanty & Ors.; award modified; enhanced total compensation Rs.14,50,000/- payable to claimants within eight weeks; statutory deposit refund by Registry within six weeks of application; compromise petition kept on record; High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; Justice A.K. Mohapatra; 08.03.2025.

What did the court decide?

Enhanced total compensation of Rs.14,50,000/- payable by the Insurance Company to the Claimants-Respondents within eight weeks; statutory deposit refundable by the Registry within six weeks of receipt of the refund application. ¶24

Legal Manager United India Insurance Co. Ltd.,Angul Vs Bharati Mohanty — Orissa HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

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Issue for consideration

Whether the matter has been amicably settled between the parties such that the award may be modified and the FAO disposed of in terms of the compromise.

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Court's answer

Pursuant to the amicable settlement, the award is modified to the extent that the Insurance Company shall pay a total compensation of Rs.14,50,000/- (Rupees Fourteen Lakh Fifty Thousand) to the Claimants-Respondents within a period of eight weeks.

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Ratio / Principle

On payment of the enhanced compensation, the Insurance Company is at liberty to move an application before the Registry of this Court for refund of the statutory deposit, and the Registry is directed to refund the statutory deposit within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of such application.

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Key takeaways

The Compromise Petition filed in Court is kept on record.ratio¶23
In terms of the aforesaid compromise, the FAO stands disposed of.ratio¶24

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

FAO No.97 of 2025 — Legal Manager, United India Insurance Company Ltd., Angul (Appellant) v. Bharati Mohanty & Ors. (Respondents); High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; Justice A.K. Mohapatra; decided 08.03.2025 in the 1st National Lok Adalat. Both sides, represented by counsel, submitted that the matter had been amicably settled. The award was modified to the extent that the Insurance Company shall pay total compensation of Rs.14,50,000/- (Rupees Fourteen Lakh Fifty Thousand) to the Claimants-Respondents within eight weeks. On payment, the Company may apply to the Registry for refund of the statutory deposit, which the Registry is directed to refund within six weeks of receipt of the application. The Compromise Petition filed in Court was kept on record and, in terms of the compromise, the FAO stands disposed of.

Legal Manager United India Insurance Co. Ltd.,Angul v. Bharati Mohanty

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