Representative image NEW DELHI: If smoking a single cigarette in a room leaves a strong odour for hours, imagine the stench that would hover if 50,0000 packets, containing 10 or 20 cigarettes, get burnt inside a storeroom! Surprisingly, the surveyor did not find any smell of cigarette smoke on visiting the premises hours after fire broke out. The missing stench made the Supreme Court on Friday dismiss a petition seeking Rs 43 lakh compensation for alleged destruction of 50,000 cigarette packets. It upheld a National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission decision rejecting a shop owner's claim against New Insurance Co Ltd. A bench of Justices Navin Sinha and Krishna Murari was unimpressed with the arguments of advocate Qurratulain, who appeared for Sunil General Agency, that the surveyor played truant as the agency refused to pay bribe and did not truthfully record the extent of damage caused to goods caused by a fire in the store situated on Kalas Alandi Road in Pune in 2009.