{"id":607509,"date":"2023-09-30T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=607509"},"modified":"2023-09-30T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:30:14","slug":"rpf-personnel-can-be-treated-as-workman-for-compensation-purposes-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rpf-personnel-can-be-treated-as-workman-for-compensation-purposes-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"RPF personnel can be treated as &#8216;workman&#8217; for compensation purposes: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel can be treated as &#8216;workman&#8217; and claim compensation for injury suffered on duty under the Employee&#8217;s Compensation Act, 1923 despite it being an armed force of the Union, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Manoj Misra dismissed an appeal filed by a commanding officer of the Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF), a unit of RPF, challenging the 2016 order of the Gujarat High Court which had upheld the compensation awarded by the Workmen Compensation Commissioner to the kin of a constable, who died on duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel can be treated as &#8216;workman&#8217; and claim compensation for injury suffered on duty under the Employee&#8217;s Compensation Act, 1923 despite it being an armed force of the Union, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Manoj Misra dismissed an appeal filed by a commanding officer of the Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF), a unit of RPF, challenging the 2016 order of the Gujarat High Court which had upheld the compensation awarded by the Workmen Compensation Commissioner to the kin of a constable, who died on duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}