UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO LTD vs ZAMIL AHMED & ANR

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 23 April 2025 Judgment pronounced on: 13 May 2025 FAO 392/2017 & CM APPL. 36775/2017 UNITED INDIA INSURANCE CO LTD .....Appellant Through: Ms. Khushi Sachdeva, Proxy Counsel Versus ZAMIL AHMED & ANR. .....Respondents Through: None. HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DHARMESH SHARMA JUDGMENT DHARMESH SHARMA, J. 1. The appellant/insurance company has preferred this appeal under Section 30 of the Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923 [“EC Act”] for setting aside/quashing of judgment-cum-award dated 14.02.2017 passed by the learned Commissioner, Employee’s Compensation [“Commissioner”], allowing the claim petition of the respondent No.1/claimant on account of his death on the intervening night of 16/17.09.2009 during the course of his employment. 2. Briefly stated, it was claimed that the claimant/respondent No. 1 was employed as a driver by respondent No. 2, operating an Auto TSR bearing registration No. D1-IRL-1550; and that on the intervening night of 16/17.09.2009, at around 1:00 A.M., the claimant was returning home from ISBT via Outer Ring Road and when he reached near the FAO 392/2017 3. It was thus claimed by the claimant/responden