FA/1856/2011

NEUTRAL CITATION C/FA/1856/2011 JUDGMENT DATED: 30/09/2025 2025:GUJHC:59423 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/FIRST APPEAL NO. 1856 of 2011 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Sd/- ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No ✓ ========================================================== REGIONAL DIRECTOR Versus SUNILKUMAR LALCHAND BHATT ========================================================== Appearance: MR SACHIN D VASAVADA(3342) for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MR PRABHAKAR UPADYAY(1060) for the Defendant(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 30/09/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT 1. The present appeal is filed by the appellant-Employees State Insurance Corporation (hereinafter be referred to as the “Corporation”) under Section 82 of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (hereinafter be referred to as the ‘ESI Act”) against the judgment and order dated 9.12.2009 passed by the learned Employees State Insurance Court, Ahmedabad (hereinafter be referred to as the “ESI Court”) in ESI Second Appeal No. 05 of 2007, whereby the