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Centre to relook LIC policy debarring payment to differently abled

The bench asked the Centre to explore the possibility of making suitable Amendments in the Policy to benefit handicapped persons

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The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to take a relook into a condition in LIC's Jeevan Aadhar Policy, which debars payment of annuity to the differently-abled persons until their on of their parents or guardian is alive.

A Bench of Justice AK Sikri, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S Abdul Nazeer, however, refused to interfere with the current provisions in the Policy saying that it ¿cannot give a direction to the Parliament to amend or make a statutory provision in a specified manner¿.

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