JUDGMENT - R.M. LODHA, J.:---The order passed by the 2nd Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation, Mumbai on 4-11-97 in Application No. (W.C.A.) 191/A-50 of 1997 whereby he directed the petitioners to deposit an additional amount of Rs. 27,00,635/- in the Court is impugned by the petitioners under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

2.The 1st petitioner is a company incorporated under the laws of England and is based in the United Kingdom. The 2nd petitioner is an Indian company which operates as an agent on behalf of various shipping companies including the company known as B.T. Fleet Personnel Ltd., (Burmuda). The 1st respondent is the widow of Shri Shankara Raman Narayanan who was employed by B.T. Fleet Personnel Ltd., through 2nd petitioner as their managers. The employee died during accident on board m.v. Nautilus on 9-8-96. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th respondents are the father, mother and elder sister of the deceased employee. The said Narayanan was employed in accordance with the service conditions which have been annexed by the petitioners as Exhibit 'C' pages 47 to 67 of the paper book. It is the case of the petitioners that the accident in which the employee died

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