- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC:10413-DB CCC No. 85 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 11TH DAY OF MARCH, 2025 PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR N. V. ANJARIA, CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.I.ARUN CIVIL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 85 OF 2025 BETWEEN: A.V. NAGARAJAN S/O. LATE MR. ANANTHA SASTRY AGED ABOUT 74 YEARS RESIDING AT NO.42/28 39TH "A" CROSS, 11TH MAIN 4TH 'T' BLOCK, JAYANAGAR BENGALURU - 560 041. …COMPLAINANT (BY SRI ADITYA NARAYAN, ADVOCATE) AND: MR. C.R. ARAVIND THE MANAGER (CRM) LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA DIVISIONAL OFFICE - I J.C. ROAD, BENGALURU - 560 002. …ACCUSED (BY SRI HALLUR SHIVAYOGI BASAVARAJ, ADVOCATE) THIS CCC IS FILED UNDER SECTIONS 11 AND 12 OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971, READ WITH ARTICLE 215 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, PRAYING TO ISSUE Digitally signed by H K HEMA Location: High Court of Karnataka - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC:10413-DB CCC No. 85 of 2025 NOTICE OF CONTEMPT TO THE ACCUSED AND APPROPRIATELY PUNISH AND PROSECUTE THE ACCUSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971, FOR DISOBEYING AND BREACHING THE ORDER DATED 06.08.2024 PASSED IN WRIT PETITION NO.3257/2021 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT ETC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA and HON'BLE MR JUSTICE M.I.ARUN ORAL JUDGMENT (PER: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.I.ARUN) The aforementioned contempt petition is preferred by the complainant to enforce the order dated 06.08.2024 passed by the learned Single Judge insofar as it relates to Writ Petition No.3257/2021. The relevant portion of the order passed by the learned Single Judge reads as under: "Petitioner-insurance company shall expedite the process of releasing the amounts to the respondents in these two writ petitions in terms of the awards, dated 28.01.2021 and 06.11.2020 passed by the office of the insurance ombudsman within an outer limit of eight weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order." 2. Life Insurance Corporation of India, who had suffered the order passed in Writ Petition No.11564/2021 c/w Writ Petition - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC:10413-DB CCC No. 85 of 2025 No.3257/2021, had preferred a writ appeal (Writ Appeal No.1455/2024) against the order passed in Writ Petition No.3257/2021 and for that reason, it had not implemented the order passed in both the aforementioned writ petitions. The dispute pertains to the amount payable to the complainant herein upon maturity of the life insurance policy availed by him from the Life Insurance Corporation of India. The said writ appeal No.1455/2024 has been dismissed by the court today. In the light of the same, the respondent is hereby directed to settle the claim of the petitioner-complainant as directed in Writ Petition No.3257/2021, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order, failing which the respondent would be exposed to aggravated form of contempt. The contempt petition stands disposed of accordingly. SD/- (N. V. ANJARIA) CHIEF JUSTICE SD/- (M.I.ARUN) JUDGE hkh. List No.: 1 Sl No.: 41