RAMSWAROOP SINGH Vs. CARVAN ROADWAYS LTD. AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In award dated 29.06.2010 passed in Claim Case No. WCCF 9/2008 titled as Ramswaroop Singh & Anr. Vs. M/s Carvan Roadways Ltd. & Ors. by Commissioner(W.C.) Jaipur District, Jaipur has been challenged by claimant Ramswaroop Singh only on the ground that the interest on the compensation amount should have been awarded to the claimants from 10.06.2005 (date of the accident) and not from 15.01.2008 (the date of filing of claim application) and additionally funeral expenses to the tune of Rs. 2500/- have also been claimed by the appellant.

(2.) I have heard arguments of both the parties law of interest payable in cases of W.C. Act have been elaborated in the following ruling to my knowledge-

(3.) Looking to the law propounded in aforesaid rulings and looking to the delay made by the claimants in filing the claim it appears that the interest on the compensation amount should be made payable in this case neither from the date of the accident nor from the date of the award of the Tribunal but from the date of the filing of the claim application i.e. 15.01.2008 because for the delay in filing the claim application, the respondents may not be unnecessarily made to suffer and so the argument of the appellant in this regard stands dismissed because the Tribunal has already awarded interest from the date of filing of claim application.