Insurer told to pay out `30 lakh claim for building slab collapse

Consumer Disputes Commission also ordered payment of `50,000 towards the loss of esteem and costs of litigation

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Thane: The Additional District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission here has ordered SBI General Insurance Co. Ltd to pay a complainant Rs30 lakh for damages to his flat due to slab collapse within 45 days, or pay an additional 9% per annum until realization.

Deepak Golikar told the commission that he had bought a flat in Navi Mumbai and availed a loan of Rs45.68 lakh from

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SBI in August 2019. At the time, the insurer had approached him with a housing policy, for Rs30 lakh from August 2019 to August 2029.

On December 01, 2020, a slab collapsed in the building, damaging his flat and causing him to move into rental accommodation. Following the accident, the complainant filed for the claim, which was rejected by the insurance company. The commission observed that the surveyor report had stated that

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Tube seized from accused has blood on it

First India Bureau Mumbai: Police have found a new piece to the puzzle of 22-year-old MBBS student Sadichha Sane’s murder, officials said on Saturday.

Navy divers and the Mumbai police conducted a joint search for Sane’s body in the sea late last month. —FILE PHOTO

This question is being raised again and again in the corridors of power in Delhi that after the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya — to be completed by the year end — what will be the next agenda for the BJP? An ideologue associated with the Sangh says that neither the Sangh nor the BJP lacks issues. Now ‘Uniform Civil Code’ and ‘Population Control Bill’ are to come, whose threat can be heard anytime after 2024.

However, in a written reply in Parliament, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had said the government had requested the 21st Law Commission to undertake an examination of various issues relating to uniform civil code and to make recommendations. “The term of the 21st Law Commission ended on August 31, 2018. As per the information received from the Law Commission, the matter related to uniform civil code may be taken up by the 22nd Law Commission for its consideration,” he had said. The implementation of a uniform civil code was a poll promise made by the ruling BJP in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

K’TAKA POLLS: JD(S) KINGMAKER FOR BJP OR CONGRESS?

What the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka mean for the BJP is known from the Union Budget presented in the Parliament on Wednesday as the irrigation scheme worth Rs 65,000 crore was announced for Karnataka. In any case, the recent opinion polls conducted by the party in Karnataka have raised eyebrows in the BJP leadership. So, to ensure its victory in the upcoming State Assembly elections, party strategists want to forge an electoral alliance with JD(S), a major party in the state. In this regard, when BJP strategists approached HD Deve Gowda, he bluntly said that ‘he can think of post-poll alliance with BJP.’ But the biggest problem before BJP strategists is that

Deve Gowda is more or less saying the same thing to Congress. Deve Gowda has an old friendship with Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. So, even though Deve Gowda did not go to Kashmir at the conclusion of Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, he did issue a letter in support of Rahul, much to the dismay of the saffron strategists.

So, these people have recently approached Kumaraswamy, son of Deve Gowda, who is said to be more inclined towards BJP than Congress. So, while father Deve Gowda was issuing letters in support of Rahul, son Kumaraswamy was voicing his mind on a local TV channel that ‘the country does not like Rahul Gandhi’.

Cops have found blood stains on a floating tube seized from the home of lifeguard Mittu Singh, the prime accused in the case, is lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail since his arrest last month.

Officials say that Sane, who went missing in November 2021, died after falling on the rocks at Bandra Bandstand during a tussle with Singh, who then took a floating tube and dragged her body into the sea before returning. Singh has previously told the police that she died after he ended up “pushing her during a scuffle” and suffered injuries to her head.

Police suspect that the

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Blood stains will be matched with that of Sane’s kin for identification as part of the investigation blood found on the tube came from Sane’s head wound. the slab collapse had taken place due to use of inferior quality building material. Whenever insurance is taken on any property, the bank and insurance company carefully verify all documents to ascertain the life of the structure, it noted. Considering the evidence, there was no ground to repudiate the insurance claim, it said in the order passed on January 20, and made available on Friday, the commission also ordered payment of Rs 50,000 towards the loss of esteem and costs of litigation to the complainant.

The blood stains will be matched with that of Sane’s kin for identification and other details as part of the investigation, the official added.

Mumbai police and Navy team had conducted a search earlier in the sea along Bandra Bandstand to locate Sane’s body but in vain.

‘Pay local tax, get bonus `10L accident insurance’

Latur (PTI): In a bid to increase revenue, the authorities of a village in Latur district have decided to provide accident insurance coverage of Rs10 lakh to those villagers who completely pay off the tax charged by the local panchayat.

This novel decision was taken during a gram sabha meeting held at Panchincholi village located in Nilanga tehsil on Friday.

The highly anticipated Kala Ghoda Arts Festival began in Mumbai on Saturday, under the theme Past <> Forward, after a gap of two years due to the pandemic. It will run till February 12.

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Panchincholi sarpanch Geetanjali Hanumante presided over the meeting, where her predecessor Shrikant Salunkhe proposed a resolution that personal accident insurance cover of Rs10 lakh will be provided to the villagers on 100% payment of the panchayat tax. His resolution was welcomed by all members and passed unanimously.

“The population of Panchincholi village is 5,947 and there are around 930 tax payers. This decision was taken to motivate the villagers towards paying their taxes,” Salunkhe said. Some other resolutions aimed at the development of the village were also passed during the meeting, he said.

350 ‘original’ stones found, tagged for rebuild

fort and the structure may have collapsed due to a landslide at the time, conservation architect Varun Bhamare said.

Aurangabad (PTI):

About 350 stones that fell possibly due to landslide from the ‘Nane Darwaja’ of the historic Raigad Fort have been retrieved and will be used to rebuild the structure based on architectural points from the time, an expert involved in the work said on Saturday.

Situated in the Sahyadri mountain range, Raigad Fort, some 370km from here, was made the capital of the Maratha Empire in 1674 on the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

As per the book “Shrimad Raigirau” by Gopal Chandorkar, the Nane Darwaja was an octroi collection point at the

“We searched for the arch and bracket stones that fell from the structure in the valley below and managed to retrieve around 350 of them. These have been numbered by us after identifying their position in the original structure. Work to fix them accordingly to recreate the structure has begun,” Bhamare said.

A channel cut into the stene to ensure water flowing downhill did not harm Nane Darwaja has also been found and the mud and sludge covering it has been cleared so it can drain water as originally intended, he added.

The aerial mapping of Raigad Fort is also complete and some 350 sites that existed during the reign of the legendary warrior-king have been identified, Bhamare said. All these works to restore Nane Darwaja have been undertaken by the Raigad Development Authority, he added.