1. The Regional Director, Employees' State Insurance Corporation, Trichur (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) is the appellant in this appeal which has been filed under S.82 of the Employees' State Insurance Act (hereinafter called the Act) against the judgment dated 20-10-1973 of the Employees' Insurance Court, Calicut holding that the Corporation is liable to pay to the respondent herein disablement benefit on the ground of his having sustained an'employment injury' as defined under S.2(8) of the Act.

2. The respondent who is employed as a worker in the plywood department of Messrs. Standard Furniture Co., Kallai, met with a road accident on 2-5-1970 at 2.35 A.M. while returning from the factory to his residence after having completed bis work in the shift between 5 P.M. and 2 A.M. While the respondent was walking along the trunk road on his way to his residence from the factory he was knocked down by a motor car as a result of which he sustained a fracture in his right arm. The incident took place at a place far away from the factory premises. The respondent claimed disablement benefit from the Corporation contending that since the accident had taken place wh