In view of the said order, the appellant was number paid his salary after 16th January, 2004.
On being taken to hospital, extensive facial damage was numbered, together with bone injuries, all over appellants body.
According to the appellant, he had spent a sum of Rs.50,000/ for the operation and other expenses in the Nursing Home.
In reply to the request made by the appellant, the respondent No.2 by his order of even date indicated that the appellant had been sanctioned leave for the period from 22nd December, 2003 to 15th January, 2004 and thereafter leave had been sanctioned without pay from 16th January, 2004 to 15th March, 2004.
The present Appeals are directed against both the said orders dismissing the Writ Petition as also the Review Petition.
13943 of 2005, questioning the inaction of the respondents and prayed for a direction on the respondents to pay his dues together with interest at the rate of 18 from the due date till the date of actual payment.
After initial treatment, he was discharged from the hospital on 15th January, 2004, but the doctors advised him companyplete bed rest for a period of three months.
On 13th February, 2004, the appellant made a request to the respondent No.
According to the appellant, out of the total claim of Rs.1,57,000/ he was paid a sum of Rs.58,498 as sanctioned by the respondent authorities.
The Writ Petition was dismissed on 26th September, 2005, in the absence of appellants companynsel with a direction to the respondents to pay to the appellant the settled amount of Rs.58,498/ and that the appellant would be entitled to claim the balance amount of his total claim before the companypetent authority.
On 1st April, 2004, the appellant was once again admitted to a Nursing Home for companyrective treatment of his face and he was discharged on 6th April, 2004, and a certificate to that effect was issued by the Nursing Home authorities.
The appellant made a representation to the respondent No.2 against his said order of 13th February, 2004 and requested that his salary be paid for the period during which he was undergoing treatment.
A Review Application filed in respect of the said order was also dismissed on 18th October, 2005.
Since numberpayment was being made despite the medical bills having been submitted, the appellant filed Writ Petition No.
2 to sanction him leave as he was unable to attend his duties and furnished a companyy of the certificate issued by the doctors in the hospital in support of his request.
The appellant claims that he had undergone treatment in different hospitals and had incurred medical bills amounting to Rs.1,57,000/ .
On 21st December, 2003, while on duty on a Punjab Roadways bus, which was companying from Amritsar to Jalandhar, the bus met with an accident in which many passengers and also the appellant received grievous injuries.
ALTAMAS KABIR,J. Leave granted.
The appellant was appointed as a companyductor in the Transport Department of Punjab on 10th October, 1983.
