51A Presumption as to accident arising in course of employment

Presumption as to accident arising in course of employment.

51A. For the purposes of this Act, an accident arising in the course of an insured person's employment shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, also to have arisen out of that employment.

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The Corporation is under a bounden duty to come forward on its own and to help the dependants of an insured employee who died in the course of his employment and whose death arises out of such employment.-- Harjinder Kaur v. ESI Corporation 1987 (55) FLR 772.