JUDGMENT

ORAL The appellant is the employer, who has been directed to pay ‘

compensation of 6,67,984/- with interest in proceedings under the Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923 while holding that deceased had died during the course of employment. The challenge to the impugned order of 4th March, 2016 in this appeal is on the ground that three months prior to her death, Smt. Laxmi @ Lachho had resigned and on the day of incident, she had come to appellant’s premises to visit her friend and she had died natural death whereas the case of the respondents-claimants is that due to the work pressure, the deceased was under tremendous pressure and because of the excessive stress and strain of her employment, she had died at her work place. Reliance is placed upon decision of Supreme Court in Param Pal Singh Through Father (Mst.) v. M/s National Insurance Co. & Anr. 203 I AD (S.C.) 610 to submit that an expanded meaning is to be given to the word ‘accident’ as it would include a mishap or untoward incident. Thus, it is submitted that impugned order deserves to be maintained.

Upon hearing and on perusal of the impugned order, I find that even the issues have not been correctly reproduced in the