TATA ENGINEERING AND LOCOMOTIVE Vs. REBA RANI MAZUMDAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) S .K. Mazumdar, husband of sole-respondent herein was working as Assistant Procurement Officer with M/s. Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Limited, the appellant herein.

(2.) ON 25.5.1985, he was called by his superiors in the afternoon to attend a Price Panel meeting Scheduled to be held in the office of the Divisional Manager (Central Materials). He went there and was waiting in Secretary's room, when he suddenly fell down and became unconscious. He was immediately rushed to TELCO Hospital, where he subsequently died of severe Myocardial infarction.

(3.) HIS widow filed W.C. No. 4 of 1988, under the provisions of the Act and claimed a sum of Rs. 51,332/- as lump-sum amount of compensation payable under the Act.