Smt. Pratima Saxena v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. (Labour), Lucknow and 4 Others

Court No. - 20 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 9174 of 2023 Petitioner :- Smt. Pratima Saxena Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. (Labour), Lucknow And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Zubair Hasan Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Manish Mathur,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned State Counsel for opposite parties.

¶2Petition has been filed seeking a direction to opposite parties for payment of medical reimbursement of petitioner's husband which has already been approved by the Chief Medical Officer, Lucknow vide letter dated 11.10.2021. Interest on aforesaid amount has also been sought.

¶3On 29.11.2023, learned State Counsel had been granted time to obtain instructions in this matter and he has thereafter been provided such instructions vide letter dated 08.12.2023, which is taken on record.

¶4A perusal of pragraph-3 of the instructions makes it evident that petitioner's reimbursement documents in original have been submitted before the State Government but payment could not be made to petitioner only on account of fact that they were not forwarded by the appropriate authority as per Government Order dated 30.07.2014. Paragraph 4 of the instructions also admits the fact that petitioner's original documents pertained to reimbursement have been received by State Government.

¶5Aforesaid instructions admit that petitioner is entitled to aforesaid reimbursement but could not be made payment only on account of aforesaid technical factors.

¶6In view of aforesaid, opposite parties are directed to make payment of medical reimbursement due to petitioner for an amount of Rs.11,98,497/- within a period of six weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before the authority concerned.

¶7In view of harassment suffered by petitioner, it is directed that petitioner will also be entitled to interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the date the documents were forwarded by the Chief Medical Officer, i.e. 11.10.2021 till the date of actual payment.

¶8Accordingly, the petition succeeds and is allowed. The parties to bear their own costs. Order Date :- 19.12.2023 kvg/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench