IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU WRIT PETITION NO : 18556 of 2000 Between: V.Prabhakara Reddy ..... PETITIONER AND The Govt. of A.P., Health, medical & Family Welfare (K.1) Dept., Secretariat, Hyderabad rep. by its Secretary, & Others. .....RESPONDENTS The Court made the following : HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU WRIT PETITION No. 18556 OF 2000 ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice A. Gopal Reddy) Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. Perused the material available on record. Petitioner while working as District Judge at Nellore suffered with heart-attack and initially, took treatment at Sri Chandana Hospital from 3.11.1999 to 10.11.1999 where he was advised to get treatment in a specialized hospital. Accordingly, he admitted in Care Hospital, Hyderabad where he underwent operated. He was treated in the Care Hospital from 25.11.1999 to 20.12.1999 and incurred an expenditure of Rs.1,90,706/-. Later when he claimed for reimbursement of the medical expenditure incurred by him, his claim was rejected by the second respondent holding that the G.O.Ms.No.161, dated 5.5.2000 wherein the ceiling for reimbursement of medical expenditure was enhanced from Rs.50,000/- to Rs.75,000/- has no retrospective effect in operation. Questioning the same, the present writ petition is filed. During the pendency of the writ petition, Government of A.P. vide G.O.Ms.No.107 Law (LA & J-SC.F) Department, dated 14.7.2006 modified the existing rules in A.P. Integrated Medical Attendance Rules, 1972 as amended from time to time making it clear that ‘in respect of the past claims relating to the period from 1.11.1999 onwards, where expenses were incurred by the Judicial Officers (serving or retired) or family pensioners for the medical attendance and the treatment obtained by them and their family members in any hospital or dispensary or registered medical practitioner other than the hospitals and dispensaries maintained by state government or hospitals and dispensaries notified by the Government, the claims representing the actual expenditure minus any amount that may have been sanctioned to them, with proof shall be submitted to the officers empowered to sanction the reimbursement who shall scrutinize and reimburse the amounts to the claimants’. In view of the above, the respondents are hereby directed to settle the claim of the petitioner forthwith for reimbursement of the medical expenditure incurred by him in terms of G.O.Ms.No.107, dated 14.7.2006, if not already settled. The writ petition is accordingly allowed. No order as to costs. _________________ (A. GOPAL REDDY, J.) ____________________ (SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J.) DECEMBER 09, 2009 TSR