1. Appellant insurance company has filed this appeal challenging the judgment and order dated 20.8.2007 made in Workmen's Compensation Case No. 102 of 2007 NF, passed by the Labour Officer and Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation, Sub-Division II, Bellary (hereinafter referred to as 'the WCC', for short), fastening the liability to compensate the claimants.

2. The respondent Nos. 1 to 4 herein, who are the wife, son, father and mother of the deceased Ismail, filed claim petition contending that the deceased Ismail was working as a driver on the bus bearing registration No. KA 16-4883. On 30.12.2002, as per the instructions of the owner of the bus, he picked up the passengers from Sandur to Ramapur and on that night he stayed at Ramapur. On the next morning at about 5 a.m., while he was driving the bus, he suffered heart attack and collapsed on the steering. Immediately, he was shifted to Ramapur Government Hospital and the doctor declared that the deceased had died due to cardiac arrest. Thereafter, a police complaint was lodged with the jurisdictional police station. They contended that as on the date of death of the deceased, he was aged about 36 years, earning salary of Rs.4,0