Reliance Life Insurance Co. Ltd. vs Rekhaben Nareshbhai Rathod on 24 April, 2019
6.The counter affidavit was served on the petitioner's counsel on
28.04.2016 and that no rejoinder has been filed to the effect that the
factual stand taken by the respondents is incorrect. In any event, in the
typed set of papers, the proposal forms containing the answers given by
the petitioner's husband have been enclosed. I am satisfied that the
petitioner's husband while taking the policies had not been truthful. It is
quite possible that the forms were filed up by the insurance agent. But
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then, the petitioner's husband was employed in TNEB and having signed
the the proposal forms, the consequences flowing therefrom cannot be
avoided. Even though the case laws relied on by learned counsel for the
petitioner do favour the stand taken by him, I am bound by the latest
decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court reported in (2019) 6 SCC 175
(Reliance Insurance Company Limited Vs. Rehkaben Nareshbhai
Rathod). Paragraph Nos.30 and 31 of the said decision read as follows:-