By Admin 
The Supreme Court has reprimanded the Uttarakhand government for not giving compensation to the widow of a doctor. The woman has been fighting a case for compensation for nine years. The woman’s husband died while on duty at the Community Health Center in 2016. The then government of that time had announced a compensation of Rs 50 lakh for the family, which has not been received yet.
According to the report of Live Law, the court said that it is angry with the Uttarakhand government that the doctor’s family is forced to fight the case for compensation for nine years, so now they should be compensated with these years interest. The court has ordered the state government to give Rs 1 crore to the victim’s family.
The bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Arvind Kumar was hearing on the special leave petition of the state government, which was filed against the decision of the Uttarakhand High Court. In the year 2018, the High Court directed the state government to compensate the victim’s family for compensation of Rs 1.99 crore. The High Court had ordered Rs 1.99 crore to the widow with 7.5 % annual interest till the verdict was pronounced from the filing of the petition. Also, the state’s Medicare Service Person and Institutions Act, 2013 was also asked to implement the provisions of the 2013 and give additional pension benefits to the family.
The Supreme Court said that even after the Chief Secretary of the state government, a compensation of Rs 50 lakh was not given to the victim’s family even after he was approved by the Chief Minister, while he was told that the approval was not received. The petitioner says that till now only one lakh rupees have been given to the family as an ex -gratia amount. The court said that in view of this, the state government is ordered that it will give this amount to the family with nine years of interest, which is made a total of one crore rupees.
During the hearing, the state government told the court that Rs 11 lakh has already been given to the family. He said that on the direction of the Supreme Court of 2021, the family was given holiday money, gratuity, GPF, family pension and GIS, while his son was also appointed as a junior assistant in the health department. After hearing the plea of the state government, the court has removed 11 lakh out of Rs 1 crore to Rs 89 lakh.
On April 20, 2016, the woman’s husband was shot dead by some attackers while on duty in Community Health Care, Jaspur. The victim’s family says that if 50 lakh rupees were given as an ex -gratia amount in 2016 itself, then they did not need to fight the case for nine years.