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(ii) Insurance is a contract of indemnity. Thus, an insurance policy indemnifies loss against a specified peril on the occurrence of specified peril and upon consequential damage. On the contrary, the stand of the official respondents would require payment of :: 16 ::

compensation merely on account of occurrence of the insured peril which if accepted would amount to a contract of wager that is illegal under the Indian Contract Act, 1872.