IN THE HIGH COURT PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ..... F.A.O. No.4707 of 2011 (O & M) .... Date of decision: July 27, 2011 National Insurance Company Ltd. ...Appellant v. Kaushal Kishore and others ........Respondents ..... CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MOHINDER PAL 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest ? Present: Mr. D.P. Gupta, Advocate for the appellant. ..... Mohinder Pal, J. The National Insurance Company Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as `the Insurance Company') has preferred this appeal against the order/award dated 4.5.2011 passed by the Commissioner under the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as `the Commissioner') whereby the dependents of Manish Kumar were granted compensation to the extent of `4,33,820/-. However, since the deceased workman was insured with the Insurance Company, therefore, the Insurance Company (appellant) was ordered to indemnify to respondent No.4 and the Insurance Company was held liable to pay the said amount. F.A.O. No.4707 of 2011 (O & M) [2] The workman-Manish Kumar, aged about 25 years, was working with respondent No.4 and was earning about `5,000/- per month as salary. On 25.10.2007, while in the employment of respondent No.4, Manish Kumar-workman met with an accident at Dehradun and died. The claimants, alleging that Manish Kumar-workman had died during the course of his employment with respondent No.4 herein claimed compensation. Respondent No.4 admitted the employment of the workman- Manish Kumar, occurrence of the accident during the course of employment, monthly wage and age of the deceased. He has also submitted that since the deceased was insured with the Insurance Company, therefore, the Insurance Company was liable to make the payment of compensation. The Commissioner rightly accepted this contention raised on behalf of the owner-respondent No.4. The workman was insured with the Insurance Company. Under the circumstances, the Commissioner was right in holding that the Insurance Company, being the insurer of the workman was liable to pay compensation to the claimants-respondents. Manish Kumar (workman) at the time of his death was aged about 25 years. The Commissioner, for quantifying the amount of compensation, took the wages of the deceased at `5,000/- per month. The death in this case had taken place on 25.10.2007. Under the circumstances, the Commissioner awarded compensation to the tune of `4,33,820/- to the claimants/respondents vide award/order dated 4.5.2011. I do not see any ground warranting interference in the impugned F.A.O. No.4707 of 2011 (O & M) [3] award so far as award of compensation to the claimants-respondents is concerned. In view of the above, this appeal is hereby dismissed. July 27, 2011. (Mohinder Pal) Judge *hsp*