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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY
New India Assurance Company Limited – Appellant
Versus
Thatikonda Ashwini – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY, J.)
The present appeal has been filed by the appellant-insurance company challenging the order passed by the Commissioner for Employees’ Compensation and Assistant Commissioner of Labour- IV: T.Anjaiah Karmika Samkshema Bhavan, RTC X Roads, Hyderabad (for short, ‘Labour Court’)in E.C.No.197of 2018, dated 06.01.2025.
2. Heard Sri V. Sambasiva Rao, learned counsel for appellant- insurance-company, Smt. Annapurna Sreeram, learned counsel for respondent Nos.1 to 6, who is on caveat.
3. Appellant herein is the Insurance company, respondent Nos. 1 to 5 are claimants and respondent No.6 is the owner of the crime vehicle. For convenience, the parties hereinafter are referred to as they are arrayed before the Tribunal.
4. The brief factual matrix of the present appeal is as under.
4.1 One Sri Damodar (hereafter referred as ‘deceased’) is the husband of respondent No.1, father of respondent Nos.2 and 3 and son of respondent Nos. 4 and 5. Deceased worked as driver with the respondent No.6, on a lorry bearing No.TS 12 UB 2640 and while he was in duty on 25.07.2018, he was proceeding from Miryalguda to Hyderabad on the said lorry with load of paddy dust. When he
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