JUDGMENT :

M.R. SHAH, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad in First Appeal No. 3008 of 2017 by which the High Court has partly allowed the said appeal preferred by the respondents herein and has ordered that the respondents shall be liable to pay interest @ 12 per cent p.a. as leviable under Section 4A(3) of the Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923 (hereinafter referred to as the “Act, 1923”) from the date after expiry of period of one month from 25.01.2017 (the date of the order passed by the Commissioner), the heirs of the deceased – labourer working on sugarcane field have preferred the present appeal.

2. That the deceased was a sugarcane cutting labourer. He was engaged as a labourer by the Labour Contractor for cutting the sugarcane, which was to be supplied to the sugar factory. While cutting the sugarcane, he died of a snake bite. Neither the sugar factory nor the contractor paid the compensation due and payable under the Act, 1923 and therefore the appellants herein – heirs of the deceased filed a claim petition before the Commissioner Workmen’s Compensation, Beed being