Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, May 21: Principal District Judge Poonch, Tahir Khurshid Raina today ceased the account head of the salary of the Chief Medical Officer Poonch and Block Medical Officer Mandi in an execution petition filed by the complainant who is struggling in the court for justice for last 10 years.
The complainant who hails from Mandi tehsil is an extremely poor man who was given a wrong injection by a Pharmacist of Health Department at Mandi in 2005, which resulted into damage to his right hand which started limping.
This poor man who was meeting his needs by labouring became helpless. He approached the District Court Poonch in 2006 for grant of compensation from Heath Department on account of wrong medical treatment.
After a long legal battle of seven years, the court awarded him compensation in 2013 amounting to Rs 3 lakh with interest at the rate of seven percent to be paid by the respondents including Chief Medical Officer Poonch and Block Medical Officer Mandi.
In 2014, complainant filed petition for execution of the judgment and decree passed in his favour in 2013. For the last two years the Health Department didn’t respond positively to the concern of the court. Today, when the case was taken up, court after hearing counsel for the parties, observed that Health Department has been simply changing the counsels or producing the communications and what was required to be done has not been done by them so far.
Principal District Judge Poonch Tahir Khurshid Raina, in his detailed order, observed that moorings of judicial institution depends upon the faith of a common man in it and this court will not leave any stone unturned in keeping this faith intact in the judiciary.
“The complainant is an extremely poor man who is yearning for justice for last 10 years. He will lose his faith in this institution if court will remain mute spectator to such a lackadaisical approach of the Govt”, Principal District Judge said, adding “keeping in view the conduct of judgment debtors which includes CMO Poonch and BMO Mandi, stringent measures have become inevitable”.
Accordingly, court directed that account head of salary of CMO Poonch and BMO Mandi be ceased. Treasury Officer of Poonch and Mandi have been directed to show compliance to the order of the court and their salary should not be released even from any other head.
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