Section 86
Remedies of employer against stranger.
The Code on Social Security, 2020
About this Act
An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to social security with the goal to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Where an employee has recovered compensation in
respect of any injury caused under circumstances creating a legal liability of some person other than the
person by whom the compensation was paid to pay damages in respect thereof, the person by whom the
compensation was paid and any person who has been called on to pay an indemnity under section 85 shall
be entitled to be indemnified by the person so liable to pay damages as aforesaid.