IN THE PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH FAO No.163 of 1987 (O&M) Date of Decision: 24.01.2011 Chandgi Singh alias Chand Singh ...Appellant Versus Jang Singh ..Respondent CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Bindal Present: Ms. Shikha Sharma, Advocate for the appellant. ..... RAJESH BINDAL, J. Challenge in the present appeal is to the order passed by the Workmen Compensation Commissioner, Bhatinda (for short “the Commissioner”) dismissing the claim petition filed by the appellant. The facts, as have been noticed by the Commissioner in the impugned order, are that the appellant in the present appeal was employed as a Serie by the respondent during the month of April, 1984. Right hand of the appellant was chopped off while operating fodder machine on October 1, 1984. On account of injury suffered by the appellant, he filed a claim petition and the same having been dismissed, the order is impugned before this court. A perusal of finding recorded by the Commissioner on issue No.3 shows that the appellant was not in fact an employee of the respondent but was a Serie who was to share the crop, produced on the land in his possession. By no stretch of imagination he can be said to be an employee of the owner of the land on which he was working as a Serie. He could not lead any evidence to bring his case within the definition of Workmen as provided for under the Workmen Compensation Act, 1923. For the reasons mentioned above, I do not find any merit in the present appeal. Dismissed. (RAJESH BINDAL) JUDGE 24.01.2011 sharmila