The learned Commissioner also awarded Rs.1,06,785/ as penalty.
The judgment and order of the Commissioner for Workmen Compensation was modified to that extent.
GJ 17 T 8607, which was owned by Yunusbhai Gulambhai Shaikh, respondent No.2 herein.
On 20th November, 1996, the appellants raised a claim of companypensation for a sum of Rs.2,15,280/ and 12 interest therein from the date of accident by filing a claim application before the Workmen Compensation Commissioner Labour Court.
The deceased driver was driving a truck bearing No.
2/ The appellants filed a companypensation application before the Workmen Compensation Commissioner Labour Court on 20th November, 1996.
After passage of more than 16 years, the wife and children of the deceased driver had still number received any companypensation.
The appellants are the wife and the relatives of deceased driver who died in a road accident.
The High Court directed the respondent No.1 Insurance Company to pay interest on the amount of companypensation from the date of 3/ adjudication of claim application i.e. 23th December, 2010 and number from one month after from the date of accident i.e. 21st August, 1996.
Aggrieved and dissatisfied with the aforesaid judgment and award passed by the learned Commissioner, the Insurance Company filed First Appeal before the High Court.
The appellants made a claim of Rs.2,15,280/ and also penalty to the tune of 50 of the companypensation i.e. a sum of Rs.1,07,640/ , thus, making the grand total of Rs.3,22,920/ .
By judgment and order, dated 24th January, 2012, the High Court has partly allowed the First Appeal.
The deceased was 36 years of age at the time of the accident.
On 23th December, 2010, the learned Commissioner awarded companypensation on account of death in the sum of Rs.2,13,570/ with 12 interest from the date of accident.
Delay companydoned.
Leave granted.
In companying to the aforesaid companyclusion, the High Court relied upon the judgment of this Court reported in Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation number Uttarakhand Transport Corporation versus Satnam Singh, 2011 14 SCC 758, wherein it has been held that the interest was payable under the Workmen Compensation Act from the date of the Award and number from the date of accident.
Respondent No.1 the Insurance Company, companytested the companypensation application.
Aggrieved by the aforesaid judgment of the Hgh Court, the appellants have filed the present appeal.
