1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 130 OF 2006 Janhit Manch & ors ......Petitioner versus State of Maharashtra & anr........Respondents. Mr. Jamshed Mistry i/b Pravin Mehta & Mithi adv. for the Petitioner. Mr.J.G. Reddy adv. for the Respondent. Mr. N.P. Deshpande AGP for Respondent-Mah. Legislature Mr. R.M. Kadam A.G. a/w. G.W. Mottos AGP for State. CORAM: J.N. PATEL Acting C.J. AND B. R. GAVAI, J. DATED : 27th January, 2010. P.C.: 1. Heard. 2. This petition was filed by the petitioner mainly to highlight the irregular manner in which medical expenses of the elected representatives are being paid out of the public exchequer. It was specifically contended by the petitioner that legislators, judges and state employees being public servants, should not be discriminated in providing medical expenses i.e. Health care and 2 that if there is any discrimination, the same needs to be quashed. 3. The State has framed its own rules in this regard. Therefore we do not think it proper to examine that the rules are discriminatory or not as the same can always be dealt with by court in a given case or in respect of persons who approach the court. The only flaws the court found were in respect of reimbursement of medical expenses and therefore from time to time we had passed necessary orders. Hon. Speaker and Chairman of the State Legislature was kind enough to constitute a high power committee and examine the medical bills relating to reimbursement sought by the past and present MLA/MLC and the committee found that except for one MLA though others have claimed reimbursement of medical expenses, there were merely procedural irregularities. On scrutiny it was found that reimbursement of medical expenses have been now stream lined and the committee has placed its report before the court, and it has also referred the matter to the public health department for taking appropriate action. We therefore do not think it proper to examine other aspects of the matter agitated in the PIL for the reasons aforesaid, and as the attention of this court has been specifically drawn towards the illegalities and irregularities of reimbursement of medical bills by MLA/MLC (past and present) the high power committee has already examined it and the report is on record. Therefore we dispose of this PIL, with a direction to the Health Department to adopt measures to prevent misuse and abuse of Medical facilities by representatives of the people, judges public and government 3 servants so that genuine cases do not suffer for want of health care. (Acting C.J.) (B.R. Gavai, J.)