These two insurance companypanies do insurance business of life insurance and general insurance.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petitions Nos.
C. Setalvad, Attorney General of India Porus Mehta and P. G. Gokhale, with him for the respondents.
186 195 of 1954.
In the case of the Tropical Insurance Company Ltd. an Administrator was appointed, under numberification dated the 14th of July, 1951 and in the case of the Jupiter General Insurance Company Ltd. another Administrator was appointed under numberification dated the 10th of July, 1951.
C. Isaacs, Mohan Behari Lal and P. K. Ghosh, with him for the petitioners in both petitions.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by IMAM J. These petitions under article 32 of the Constitution of India question the validity of the numberifications issued under section 52 A of the Insurance Act of 1938 hereinafter referred to as the Act and the appointment of an Administrator.
Admittedly previous to the appointment of the Administrators the Controller issued numberices under section 52 A to the petitioners and the Finance Ministry of the Central Government sent letters to them pointing out the allegations in the report of the Controller to which they replied.
September 22.
