1. This is an appeal under section 30 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, directed against the judgment and order dated 20.03.2003, of the Commissioner, Workmen’s Compensation, Guwahati, passed in W.C. Case No. 270/2001.

The facts and circumstances which has led to the filing of this appeal in brief, are as follows:

2. On 27.11.2001, the respondent No. 1 in this case filed an application before the Commissioner, Workmen’s Compensation, Ulubari, Guwahati-7 claiming as here below:-

That he was an employee of one Md. Habibullah of Beltola, Guwahati, (the respondent No. 2, in this case), as handyman in his Truck bearing Registration No. ML-05-A/8948. And on 23.06.2001, while he was so employed, the vehicle in which he was employed met with an accident at Simlaguri N.H. No. 31, due to which he suffered serious injuries such as (i) fracture of lower end of fibula, (ii) on the frontal region of scalp and (iii) on foot.

Soon after the accident he was taken to Barpeta Civil Hospital, and he was treated by the Senior Medical and Health Officer and later on by another Doctor namely, Mr. H.N. Gogoi of Gauhati Medical College. As a consequence of the accident, and despite the