A friend of mine just told me about an incident and trust me, it is a shameful blotch on India because it has happened here, okay here it goes, a lady lost her 22year old daughter in 2007. This daughter had an insurance policy, for which she used to regularly pay the premium. After she died, the lady that is her mother who is already in a state of grief, goes to the insurance company to collect the money. The company refuses to give the full claim and when she asks for a reason they say, ' SINCE SHE WAS A GIRL, SHE WAS A LIABILITY. HAD SHE BEEN A BOY, WE WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU THE FULL CLAIM, SO NOW WE WONT GIVE YOU THE ENTIRE CLAIM'.
How sick and disgusting can someone get! I was shocked when i heard this. We all proudly say that India now has gender equality, well is this the"gender equality" that we have learnt in our books and that the world talks about? i don't think so!
Now, is this how much an insurance company should or can fall to make profit? That female had paid the entire premium, this is unfair...and the sad thing is we can just talk about it and do nothing! the only good thing in this entire scene was when the mother smacked that insurance agent on the face literally before leaving!!
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