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Section 2(8) of the Act
defines employment injury as "Employment Injury means a personal injury to an employee caused by an accident or an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his employment, being an insurable employment, whether the accident occurs or the occupational disease is contracted within or outside the territorial limits of India."
Hence,
if an employee meets with an accident on the way before reaching his work place or after leaving it on his return journey, such an accident cannot be deemed as arising out of and during the course of his employment. Though
earlier Corporation has admitted
some cases of 'commuting accidents' as
employment injury, in the light of
Hon'ble Supreme Court judgement,
Corporation has stopped admitting
commuting accident cases.
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