Supreme Court of India

The Regional Director, E.S.I. Corporation and Anr. v. Francis De Costa and Anr.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 797
Bench A.M. Ahmadi J.
Decided 11 September 1996

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We are of the view that the employee was unable to prove that the accident had any causal connection with the work he was doing at the factory and in any event, it was not suffered in the course of employment.

Judgment, page 16

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