JUDGMENT :

1. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed by the National Insurance Company Limited, under Section 30 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, aggrieved by the award of the Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation and Assistant Commissioner of Labour-IV, Hyderabad, passed in W.C. Case No. 104 of 2001.

2. The respondents 1 to 6 herein were the applicants before the Tribunal below, claiming compensation under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, on account of death of one Sri Mohd. Saber. Applicant No. 1 is the wife, Applicant Nos. 2 to 5 are the children, and Applicant No. 6 is the mother, of the deceased; whereas, Opposite Party No. 1 was the owner of the lorry bearing registration No. AP. 9T. 8106, and also father of the deceased, and, Opposite Party No. 2 was the insurer of the said lorry. It was the case of the applicants before the Tribunal that the deceased was employed by the first Opposite Party as driver on the said vehicle and, on intervening night of 22/23-9-2001, when the deceased was proceeding from Hyderabad to Gujarat on National Highway No. 9, near Sagar Dhaba, after crossing Zahirabad town in Andhra Pradesh, the deceased-driver lost cont