Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 291 · Decided 6 March 2020
Poonam Devi and Others v. Oriental Insurance CO. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 291 · [2020] 4 S.C.R. 922
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1836/2020
- Decided
- 6 March 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Employee's Compensation Act, 1923: Theory of notional extension - Victim-deceased was a truck driver - On 11 June 2003, he was driving truck of respondent no.2 from Ambala to Meerut, a distance of 200 Kms - At about 12.30 p.m., he stopped the truck near bridge to fetch and also to have bath when he slipped into the canal and died - PW-2 standing near bridge tried to save him but he also slipped in the canal and could not save the deceased - Workman Commissioner granted compensation to LRs of the deceased - However, High Court held that death
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