JUDGMENT

Sharad Kumar Sharma, J. - The appellant, Insurance Company, herein, has put a challenge to the impugned award, as it had been rendered by the Workmen Compensation Commissioner / Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Haldwani, District Nainital, in the proceedings of Employee Compensation Application No. 274 of 2014, Smt. Ganga Devi Vs. Shri Pitamber Kandpal and another, whereby, the learned Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Haldwani, while adjudicating upon the award and the claim which was raised by the claimant, respondent No. 1, herein, had partially decreed the award in favour of the claimant, directing therein, to the Insurance Company to pay an amount of Rs.3,20,773/-, along with Rs. 5,000/- as an amount payable towards the funeral expenses, i.e. totalling to an amount of Rs.3,75,773/- to the claimants, as a compensation along with an interest payable on it @ 8%, from the date of accident, till the date of its actual payment.

2. The appellant, herein, i.e. the Insurance Company, and had invoked, Section 30 of the Workmen Compensation Act, 1923, hereinafter to be called as an Act of 1923, putting a challenge to the award on various counts, and particularly, the basic ground o