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2021 Supreme(HP) 689

SANDEEP SHARMA
National Insurance Company Limited – Appellant
Versus
Karan Bahadur – Respondent


Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Deepak Bhasin, Advocate
For the Respondents:Ajay Chandel and Svaneel Jaswal, Advocates

JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, J.

1. Instant appeal filed under section 3Q of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, lays challenge to order dated 18.01.2005, passed by Commissioner under Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (for short "Act") in case No. WCA-6/2002, whereby learned Court below while holding respondents/claimants No. 1 and 2 entitled for compensation to the tune of Rs. 4,22,585/- on account of death of late Sh. Vinod Kumar, who allegedly died on account of the injuries suffered by him at the construction site of respondent No. 8, held appellant-insurance company liable to pay the aforesaid amount of compensation.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case as emerge from the record are that on 8.7.2002, late Sh. Vinod Kumar, who was engaged as labourer on the construction site by the contractor Furpa Lama, suffered injuries after being hit by a stone. On account of aforesaid injury, deceased Vinod Kumar died on the spot. Respondents/claimants No. 1 and 2 being legal representatives of aforesaid deceased labourer filed a claim petition under Workmen's Compensation Act in the Court of learned Commissioner, under Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, which ultimately came to be allowed vide o

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