A Chhattisgarh man has won a Rs 2.5 lakh payout from a consumer commission after the insurer under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana rejected his deceased father's accidental death claim, citing mismatches in the name and age recorded across documents.
The Chhattisgarh State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, in an order pronounced on 11 August 2026, set aside an earlier district commission ruling that had dismissed the complaint, and directed the insurance company to pay the full insured sum of Rs 2 lakh along with Rs 40,000 as compensation for mental agony and Rs 10,000 towards litigation expenses.
