confined to the compensation determined in terms of S.168. In an appeal under S. 173 by a person liable under the award of the Tribunal he would be entitled to challenge the compensation fixed under S.168, the order for interest, costs, compensatory costs, etc. Since an award is a direction to pay, the amount due by way of interest till the date of award will also form part of the amount due as on the date of award. The right of appeal under S. 173 springs on the pronouncement of the award and therefore, if a debtor under the award is the appellant and if he challenges the award as a whole, the amount in dispute in the appeal will be the entire amount that he would be liable to pay, if he satisfied the award of the Tribunal as on the date of its pronouncement. Therefore, the phrase "the amount in dispute in the appeal" takes within its sweep all amounts granted as part of an award. So much so, the amount in dispute in the appeal. for the purpose of S. 173, would be the entire amount a person is liable to pay under the award as on the date of the award and which he disputes in the appeal. This will necessarily include the quantum of compensation fixed, the interest accrued till the 1 and awarded by the Tribunal, as also any costs or compensatory costs or any other amounts awarded and payable under the award as on the date of the award. Therefore, the only way of construing the term "the amount in dispute in the appeal" in sub-s. 2 of S. 173 is that it takes within it, any amount awarded as costs and the interest accrued on the compensation, till the date of making of the award. (para. 4)”.
