UP man gets son killed for Rs. 2 crore insurance
A 50-year-old man from Sambhal was arrested for allegedly giving ‘supari’ to contract killers to murder his own son and fraudulently claim a Rs 2 crore insurance payout following an advocate’s advice. Three others involved in killing Aniket Sharma, 22, were also held, police said.
Aniket was found dead near a farm along a road in Moradabad district on Nov 16. His father, Baburam Sharma, initially insisted that his son was killed in a road accident and refused to file a complaint. But, the autopsy report indicated “head injury due to an assault” and it led cops to dig more into the case.
Baburam kept changing his police statement and finally confessed during questioning. An FIR was subsequently registered under BNS section 103 (murder) in Moradabad after a complaint by Aniket’s uncle.
Baburam told cops that he personally handed Aniket over to the contract killers — allegedly for Rs 3.5 lakh — on the pretext of taking him out. They allegedly first assaulted him, then inflicted a fatal blow on his head and dumped him near the road to pass it off as a hit-and-run case. The hired men also ran a car over the 22-year-old’s body to “mislead the investigators”.
Doc, not insurer, decides line of treatment: Panel
Decisions on the line and method of treatment are not the insurance company’s to make but the medical fraternity’s, the district consumer commission has ruled in a case related to rejection of a claim to a Covid patient.
The order came while the panel was hearing a complaint against Star Health and Allied Insurance, which had denied a Covid-related claim on the grounds that the patient was asymptomatic and should have been treated in home isolation. The commission directed the insurer to settle the claim of around Rs 50,000 with a 6% annual interest and pay an additional Rs 2,000 towards litigation costs within 30 days of the order.
The case was filed by Dadri resident Nitu Nagar, who had approached the district consumer disputes redressal commission (DCDRC) on Sept 1, 2022, seeking relief after her medical claim was rejected.
Nagar told the commission that her husband, Ajay Nagar, had been a policyholder under Star Health’s Family Health Optima Insurance Policy since 2018, renewing it every year without interruption. The claim was raised in Jan 2022, during the fourth year of coverage, when she was admitted to Yatharth Hospital in Greater Noida. She had high fever and breathing difficulty, symptoms that her family believed warranted immediate medical attention.
Pay Rs. 11 crore to kin of bizmna killed in crash
A general insurance company and a truck owner have been directed to pay Rs 10.9 crore compensation to the kin of a Mumbai businessman who died in multi-vehicle crash on Pune-Mumbai expressway on Jan 9, 2012.
A motor accident claims tribunal in Pune ordered the compensation to be paid with 7.5% per annum interest from March 1, 2016, the date of filing of the petition. The overall compensation with interest works out to more than Rs 18 crore and will continue to grow till actual realisation of payment.
Rajiv Vinod Shah (41) was travelling from Mumbai to Pune in his Honda City. A truck going to Mumbai from Pune hit a car, which crashed through the road median and collided head on with Shah’s car. A state transport corporation’s bus, which was following the victim’s vehicle, hit the car of Shah, who died on the spot.
Six members of his family filed an accident claim petition before the tribunal, seeking Rs 17.4 crore compensation with interest. The tribunal proceeded ex parte against the truck owner as he never appeared before it during the hearing.
The insurance company contested the claim, among other things, on the grounds that the accident resulted from composite negligence of all three vehicles and that the other two vehicles were not involved in the proceedings.
