Parties settle Mysuru shop slip claim for ₹4,700, subject to receipt review
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The agreement limits the release to the incident and stated treatment expense, records no admission of fault, and provides for payment within 14 days after acceptance.
The settlement agreement
Nisha Balan and Prakash Hegde have settled Balan’s claim for ₹4,800 in treatment expenses arising from a fall at Hegde’s stationery shop in Mysuru. The recorded agreement provides for ₹4,700, subject to receipt review, rather than a judicial award of the amount sought.
The dispute was identified as a matter before the Civil court in Mysuru. The supplied record contains settlement terms but no court ruling on whether Hegde’s warning board adequately alerted customers to the wet entrance.
The agreement records no admission of fault. It therefore resolves the payment claim on agreed terms without establishing responsibility for the fall.
The agreed terms
The settlement amount is ₹100 below Balan’s requested reimbursement. Both the amount and the payment provision are subject to receipt review.
Payment is to be made within 14 days after acceptance. The record does not state an acceptance date or specify the procedure for reviewing the receipt.
The release is limited to this incident and the stated treatment expense. A release defines the claims covered by the settlement; the recorded wording does not extend it beyond that scope.
The parties' positions
Balan maintained that she did not see a warning when entering the shop and that a board placed inside did not sufficiently warn her about the wet entrance. She sought only reimbursement of her documented treatment expenses, with no additional damages.
Hegde’s position was that the warning board was sufficient. The record also identifies his WhatsApp reply that evening stating that he had mopped and placed the yellow board just inside the door.
The adequacy and visibility of that warning remained the central dispute. The settlement does not record an agreed finding on either point, and its no-admission provision leaves fault unresolved.
The background
Balan entered the stationery shop and slipped on wet entrance tiles, bruising her knee. The date of the incident is not stated.
About two minutes after the fall, she photographed the entrance. The record describes the photograph as showing wet-looking tiles and a yellow warning board partly hidden by the open door.
The supporting material also included a clinic receipt for ₹4,800 and Hegde’s WhatsApp reply about mopping and the board’s placement. No witness was available to identify. The record notes that Balan was looking toward a display rather than closely watching the floor.
There is no recorded judicial assessment of those materials or of Balan’s attention as she entered. The outcome is a conditional agreement for payment toward the stated treatment expense, with a limited release and no determination of fault.