Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 180 · Decided 13 February 2020
K Sivaraman & ORS. v. P Sathishkumar & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 180 · [2020] 4 S.C.R. 480
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9046/2019
- Decided
- 13 February 2020
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, AJAY RASTOGI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142
Headnote
Employee's Compensation Act, 1923: s.4 - Whether the benefit of Act 45 of 2009 deleting the deeming provision in Explanation II which capped the monthly wages of an employee at Rs.4000 would also apply to accidents which took place prior to the coming into force of January 2010 - Held: The objective of the amendment by virtue of Act 45 of 2009 is to remove a deeming cap on the monthly income of an employee and extend to them compensation on the basis of the actual monthly wages drawn by them - However, there is nothing in Act 45 of 2009 either
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