IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4690 of 2003 MD.QMAR ALAM Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 6/ 21/04/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the respondent Bihar State Road Transport Corporation. The petitioner was a driver on routine duty driving a bus when he came to be attacked by anti-social elements leading to severe injuries to him. The petitioner claims to have asked for reimbursement of his medical bills. While learned counsel for the petitioner urges that the expenses are around Rs.35,000/-, learned counsel for the Corporation submits that bills submitted by the petitioner accounts for only Rs.12,000/-. If the petitioner submits the necessary bills of the medical expenses incurred, the Corporation shall consider and pay it in accordance with law. Learned counsel for the petitioner then submits that a part of the payment which has been made, has not been reimbursed, but the petitioner has been paid his own money as a loan by deduction from his C.P.F. Account which is now being deducted from his salary with interest. 2 The respondents cannot be permitted to do so once they have agreed to reimburse. The word “reimbursement” has a different connotation than paying the petitioner treatment-expenses by treating it as a loan from his own contributory provident fund. Whatever deductions have been made from the C.P.F. account of the petitioner shall be repaid to the petitioner along with interest that the Corporation may have charged from the petitioner upon it. If the petitioner submits full proof of the medical expenses incurred, subject to the right of the Corporation to verify the genuineness of the same within reasonable time. Let the remaining of the petitioner be paid within a maximum period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. This writ application stands disposed. KC (Navin Sinha, J.)