1. This appeal under Section 30 of the Workmens Compensation Act is directed against the order dated 30,9.2002 passed by the Presiding Officer -cum- Commissioner under Workmens Compensation Act, Labour Court, Hazaribagh in W.C. Case No. 2 of 2000 whereby he has allowed a total compensation of Rs. 80.000/-(Rupees Eighty thousand) on the application filed by respondent No. 1 on account of death of his father,

2. A claim case was filed by the applicant/respondent No. 1 under the Workmens Compensation Act, 1923 (In short the said Act) for the grant of compensation on account of accidental death of his father Ram Ball Chaurasiya. an employee employed under the appellant/Central Coalfields Ltd., Hazaribagh.

3. The brief facts of the case is that the deceased Ram Ball Chaurasiya was working as labour in Giddi A Colliery of the then NCDC which was subsequently merged in Central Coalfields Ltd. On 6.7.1968 while his father had been on his duty inside the coal mines, due to fall of heavy pieces of coal, he died inside the mines. The case of the claimant was that at the time of accidental death of his father lie was in the womb of his mother Jiramani Devi and just after one month of dea