The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in South Mumbai has ruled in favour of a farmer's widow, instructing an insurance firm to respect her Rs 2 lakh claim under a plan launched by the Maharashtra government following her husband's death in a traffic accident in 2017.

In a ruling published on April 18, the consumer body in Mumbai criticised the insurance firm for rejecting the woman's lawful claim in an "arbitrary" way, claiming that it had failed to fulfil its role imposed by the state government, the PTI reported.