Allahabad High Court: Person engaged in construction, maintenance or demolition of buildings above one storey is employee under Employees Compensation Act

The Allahabad High Court in the case Seema Devi v. Vimal Jain And Another observed and has held that any person who is engaged in construction, maintenance, repairing or demolition of any building which is more than one story high is an employee for the purposes of compensation under the Employees Compensation Act, 1923.

In the present case, the claimant-appellant's husband was carrying out wall painting and repair work when he fell from the third floor of a building and sustained injuries which led to his death. As the death being during employment and while working, the widow sought compensation along with interest under Section 3 of Employees Compensation Act, 1923 from the contractor who had employed his services and the house owner where the deceased was carrying out works.