{"id":123831,"date":"2009-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/union-of-india-vs-sarita-on-4-november-2009"},"modified":"2017-12-20T00:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:23:19","slug":"union-of-india-vs-sarita-on-4-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/union-of-india-vs-sarita-on-4-november-2009","title":{"rendered":"Union Of India vs Sarita on 4 November, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Union Of India vs Sarita on 4 November, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>FAO No. 3821 of 2008                                                                  1\n\n\n\n     IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                    CHANDIGARH\n                                         --\n\n                                  FAO No. 3821 of 2008\n                                  Date of decision: November 04, 2009\n\n\nUnion of India                                         ........ Appellant\n\n              Versus\n\nSarita                                                   .......Respondent (s)\n\n\nCoram:        Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur\n                       -.-\n\nPresent:      Mr. Sandeep Vermani, Advocate\n              for the appellant\n\n              Mr. J S Virk, Advocate\n              for respondent No. 1\n                     -.-\n\n         1.   Whether Reporters of local papers may be\n              allowed to see the judgement?\n\n         2.   To be referred to the Reporter or not?\n\n         3.   Whether the judgement should be reported in\n              the Digest?\n\nNirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral)\n<\/pre>\n<p>              The present appeal has been filed against the order dated<\/p>\n<p>05.02.2008 passed by the Railway Claims Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench,<\/p>\n<p>Chandigarh, vide which the respondent\/applicant was awarded a sum of<\/p>\n<p>Rs.4,00,000\/- as compensation on account of the disability suffered by her in<\/p>\n<p>an accident in which the respondent\/applicant sustained amputation of right<\/p>\n<p>leg below knee with amputation of forefoot (left), which is a scheduled injury<\/p>\n<p>as   envisaged     in   the   Railway    Accidents        and    Untoward        Incidents<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\"> FAO No. 3821 of 2008                                                        2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Compensation) Amendment Rules, 1997.\n<\/p>\n<p>            The    appellant\/Railway    took    a   plea   that   the   Railway<\/p>\n<p>Administration is absolved of the liability as provided under Section 124-A<\/p>\n<p>of the Railways Administration Act. However, under Section 124-A, the<\/p>\n<p>Railway Administration is absolved in case of suicide or attempted suit, self<\/p>\n<p>inflicted injury, own criminal act, any act committed in a state of intoxication<\/p>\n<p>or insanity, any natural cause or disease or medical or surgical treatment<\/p>\n<p>unless such treatment becomes necessary due to injury caused by the said<\/p>\n<p>untoward incidents.\n<\/p>\n<p>            The aforesaid controversy has been decided by this Court in the<\/p>\n<p>case of &#8216;Union of India through <a href=\"\/doc\/358934\/\">General Manager, Northern Railway, New<\/p>\n<p>Delhi v. Vivek Rana&#8217;, FAO No.<\/a> 4463 of 2008, decided on 28.07.2009, vide<\/p>\n<p>which it was held that such type of injuries suffered by the claimant do not<\/p>\n<p>fall within the purview of Section 124-A of the Railway Administration Act.<\/p>\n<p>            In view of the above, the present appeal is dismissed in terms of<\/p>\n<p>decision rendered in FAO No. 4463 of 2008 being covered matter.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            (Nirmaljit Kaur)<br \/>\n                                                                  Judge<br \/>\nNovember 04, 2009<br \/>\nmohan\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Union Of India vs Sarita on 4 November, 2009 FAO No. 3821 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH &#8212; FAO No. 3821 of 2008 Date of decision: November 04, 2009 Union of India &#8230;&#8230;.. Appellant Versus Sarita &#8230;&#8230;.Respondent (s) Coram: Hon&#8217;ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-punjab-haryana-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Union Of India vs Sarita on 4 November, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/union-of-india-vs-sarita-on-4-november-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Of India vs Sarita on 4 November, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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