Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 663 · Decided 19 September 1997
Western India Plywood LTD. v. SHRI. P. Ashokan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 663 · [1997] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 180
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1404/1988
- Decided
- 19 September 1997
- Bench
- S.B. MAJMUDAR, B.N. KIRPAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 136; Workmen's Compensation Act
Headnote
Labour law-Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948-Ss. 53, 61, and 2 (8)-Compensation for employment injury, where compensation already C granted under ES! Act-Suit for damages by an insured person-Bar under Sec. 53-Held, applicable not only to relief under any statute but also to a claim in rejected by the trial Court-Civil Procedure Code, 1908-0r. 33 R.1-Constitution of India, 1950-Art. 136. D Ss.53-0bject-To save the employer from facing more than one claim E in relation to the same accident. The respondent was an employee in the factory of the appellant-Company. While working on
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