Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 591 · Decided 29 April 2025
Kamal Dev Prasad v. Mahesh Forge
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 591 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 2053
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5667/2025
- Decided
- 29 April 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, K. VINOD CHANDRAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred in reducing the percentage of disability as per the Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 while determining the compensation. Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 - Schedule to the Act - Functional disability - Appellant, a forging machine operator met with an accident while operating the machine losing one or more phalanges of four fingers of his right hand - Commissioner allowed 100% disability and determined the compensation - In appeal, High Court while determining the
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