VIJAY BAHADUR SINGH & ANR vs EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION & ORS

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgement delivered on: 30.06.2025 FAO 236/2013 and CM APPL. 45968/2019 VIJAY BAHADUR SINGH & ANR .....Appellants versus EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION & ORS .....Respondents Advocates who appeared in this case For the Appellants : Dr. M. Y. Khan, Adv. For the Respondents : Mr. K P Mavi, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA JUDGMENT TEJAS KARIA, J INTRODUCTION: 1. The present Appeal has been filed under Section 82 of the Employee State Insurance Act, 1948 („ESI Act‟) being aggrieved by the final order and judgment dated 09.04.2013 („impugned order‟) passed by the Employee State Insurance Court (‘ESI Court’) in Suit No. 03/2011 filed by the Appellants/Vijay Bahadur Singh and Raj Kumari, who are the parents of Mr. Sunil Kumar („the deceased‟). The impugned order holds that the death of the deceased was for reasons not connected with the 2. By impugned order dated 09.04.2013, the learned ESI Court dismissed the suit of the Appellants with the finding that merely because the deceased was insured under the ESI Act and was residing at a place which was given to him as a temporary residence cannot be sufficient to maintain the clai