Full and final acceptance of compensation barred a later writ claim for additional payment and challenge to the award.

Acceptance of compensation under an award as full and final settlement barred the petitioner from later seeking additional payment while retaining the benefit already received. The court found that the receipts and surrounding correspondence did not support any acceptance without prejudice, and the petitioner could not approbate and reprobate to invoke writ jurisdiction for further relief. In these circumstances, the prayer for mandamus against the employer was not maintainable. The challenge to the award was therefore treated as barred by estoppel, waiver, and the doctrine of election, and no further relief was granted.

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Issues: Whether the writ petition was maintainable after the petitioner accepted the compensation paid under the award in full and final settlement, and whether he could still seek a mandamus for further payment and challenge the award.

Analysis: The petitioner had received the amounts paid pursuant to the award, and the record showed that the payment was accepted with notice that it was in full and final settlement of his dues. The subsequent assertion that the receipts were accepted without prejudice was not supported by the receipts themselves or the surrounding correspondence. On these facts, the petitioner had taken the benefit of the award and could not be permitted to approbate and reprobate or invoke writ jurisdiction to claim more while retaining the benefit already received. The Court also held that the prayer for mandamus was not maintainable against the respondent employer in the circumstances of the case.

Conclusion: The writ petition was not maintainable and the challenge to the award was barred by estoppel, waiver, and the doctrine of election; the petitioner's request for further relief was rejected.

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