FAO No.3317 of 1999 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH FAO No.3317 of 1999 Date of Decision. 10.08.2010 United India Insurance Company Limited, SCO No.177-78, Sector 8, Chandigarh through its duly constituted attorney ......Appellant Versus Ganga Devi widow of Shri Som son of Shri Fakir Chand and others ......Respondents Present: Mr. Inderjit Sharma, Advocate for Mr. Pradeep Bedi, Advocate for the appellant. None for the respondents. CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN 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? -.- K. KANNAN J.(ORAL) 1. The claim arises out of the death of a workman, who was travelling in a tractor trolley while the tractor was being driven to the work spot. The insurance company took the plea that there could not have been a passenger in a goods carriage. The Tribunal still made the insurer liable on a finding that he was not even travelling in the tractor but he was standing on the road. If he was standing on the road, he was clearly a third party and therefore, the insurer would be liable. If that evidence must be discarded and it must be taken only that he was travelling in a goods carriage since he was a workman travelling in the trolley and the accident arose in the course of employment, the liability will be attached to the FAO No.3317 of 1999 -2- employer, who was the owner of the tractor and the insurer. In either event, the liability of the insurance company cannot be doubted. The decision accords with the evidence placed on record and I find no reason to interference with the same. 2. The appeal is dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE August 10, 2010 Pankaj*