‘Heart disease not unknown in India’: Gujarat High Court denies payout after man dies of cardiac arrest on duty

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Gujarat High Court rejected compensation for a worker who died from cardiac arrest while on duty. Justice J C Doshi noted that heart disease is not unknown in India, though it may remain undetected. The court found no medical evidence linking the death to job-related physical stress or trauma. The petitioners failed to prove the death resulted from the nature of employment itself.

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