Appeal under Section 30 of W.C. Act against the proceedings in R.C.No.C/4166/2007 dated 19/04/2008 on the file of the Court of the Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation and Dy. Commissioner of Labour Zone, II Eluru.

It is unfortunate, if not shocking, that the Government in Labour Department had entrusted the powers of adjudication under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (for short ‘the Act’) to an individual, who did not have even the basic understanding of the Act and the Rules made thereunder. The result is that the Officer passed an order in an application filed under the Act in a manner which cannot be expected even from an illiterate or layman. The consequences thereof had to be suffered by the appellants herein.

He sole respondent herein filed an application before the Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation and Deputy Commissioner of Labour claiming compensation. She pleaded that her husband Sri P. Sitarama Rao, was employed as Upper Division Clerk, with the appellants and that in a fatal accident that occurred on 07.04.2007, he died. On account of there not being the regular incumbent, a Full Additional Charge was entrusted to another Officer, whose name is no