The interesting question for judicial resolution in this case is as to whether the suicide of an employee owing to depressive neurosis consequent on an employment injury sustained by him would furnish a cause of action for his dependents to make a claim for dependents' benefits under Sec. 52 of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to "the Act" for short).

2. In this appeal filed under Sec. 82 (2) of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948, the Employees State Insurance Corporation (hereinafter referred to "the Corporation" for short), which was the first opposite party before the Employees' Insurance Court, Palakkad (hereinafter referred to "the E . I. Court" for short), challenges the order dated 17-5-2005 of the E. I. Court in I.C. 84 of 2003.

3. The following are the questions of law formulated in the memoradum of Appeal filed by the Corporation:-

i) Whether the E.I. Court is justified in ordering death benefits to the legal heirs of the deceased who committed suicide while taking rest at home in pursuance of an injury sustained to him ?

ii) Committing suicide being an illegal and forbidden act, the legal heirs whether entitled to get death be