State Of Punjab & Ors vs Ram Lubhaya Bagga Etc. Etc on 26 February, 1998
Supreme Court of India
State Of Punjab & Ors vs Ram Lubhaya Bagga Etc. Etc on 26 February, 1998
Author: Misra
Bench: S.B. Majmudar, M. Jagannadha Rao, A.P. Misra
PETITIONER:
STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS.
Vs.
RESPONDENT:
RAM LUBHAYA BAGGA ETC. ETC.
DATE OF JUDGMENT:
26/02/1998
BENCH:
S.B. MAJMUDAR, M. JAGANNADHA RAO, A.P. MISRA
ACT:
HEADNOTE:
JUDGMENT:
J U D G M E N T MISRA, J.
Leave granted.
In these set of appeals arising out of Special leave petitions, the common question which has come
up for consideration is the entitlement towards medical expenses of the Punjab government
employees and pensioners as per the relevant rules and the Government policy. In pith and
substance, the scale at which their reimbursement is admissible towards their medical expenses
incurred in a nongovernmental hospital. It is not a new phenomena, such employees have been and
are still raising such issue repeatedly with the changing scenario, political, social and financial the
policy of reimbursement is not static. In the recent past in spate of petitions dealing with the 1991
policy of the State Government this Court settled this principle in the case of Surjit Singh vs. State of
Punjab & Ors., (1996 (2) SCC 336 and State of Punjab vs. Mahinder Singh Chawla (1997 (2) SCC 83.
Consequent to the effect of the said and other decisions and their resultant impact on the State
exchequer and other actors led the State Government to reconsider its old policy of 1991 by making
necessary modifications, deletionsa through order dated 9.9.94 till it was substituted through a new
policy dated 13th February, 1995. All the earlier rulings were based on the aforesaid old policy
including the clarification dated 8th October, 1991. The same was partially withdrawn on 9th
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