IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA. FAO (WCA) No.:350/2008 Decided on: 16.7.2008 Oriental Insurance Company Limited …Appellant. Versus Smt. Sucho Devi and others …Respondents Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rajiv Sharma, J. Whether approved for reporting ?1. No. For the Appellant : Mr. Lalit Kumar Sharma, Advocate. For the respondents : None. Rajiv Sharma, J. (oral) This FAO (WCA) has been directed against the award dated 5.5.2008 passed by the Commissioner Workmen Compensation (SDM), Nalagarh, District Solan in case No. 1/2007. The appellant had framed the following substantial questions of law: 1. Whether the Workman Compensation Commissioner is justified in awarding rate of interest at a rate of 12% from the 30 days after the accident in facts and circumstances wherein the Apex Court is a of the view that rate of interest is to be charged from the date of adjudication? 1 Whether the reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? No. 2 2. Whether the claimant is entitled for 12% rate of interest from 30 days after the accident or from the date of adjudication i.e. 5.5.2008? The questions of law raised by Mr. Lalit Kumar Sharma, Advocate as projected hereinabove are no more res integra in view of the law laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Pratap Narain Singh Deo versus Shrinivas Sabata and another AIR 1976 SC 222. The judgment of the Hon’ble Apex Court has been followed by me in FAO (WCA) No. 471 of 2003 decided on 11.7.2008. In view of the definitive law laid down by their Lordships of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Pratap Narain Singh case (supra), there is no merit in this appeal and the same is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. July 16, 2008 (Rajiv Sharma ), J. *awasthi*