MADAN B.LOKUR
LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA – Appellant
Versus
CHIEF COMMISSIONER FOR DISABILITIES – Respondent
( 1 ) THE Petitioner Life Insurance Corporation of India (for short the LIC) is aggrieved by an order dated 23rd December, 1999 passed by the Chief Commissioner for Disabilities under the Persons with disabilities (Equal Opportunity, Protection of Rights and Pull participation) Act, 1995 (the Act) in Case No. 93 of 1999. A letter filed by the LIC for review of this order was turned down by the Deputy Chief commissioner on 9 March, 2000.
( 2 ) PURSUANT to an advertisement, Respondent No. 2 submitted an application for the post of a Peon sometime in February-March, 1997. The application was accompanied by a certificate issued by the Chief medical Officer, Ghaziabad (and also signed by an orthopaedic surgeon and an eye specialist) to the effect that Respondent No. 2 is a case of chorea and that he is 45% disabled.
( 3 ) RESPONDENT No. 2 was called by the LIC for a written test and an interview, both of which he passed. He was then put to a prerecruitment medical examination in July, 1997 by the doctors attached to the LIC. The Medical Examiner recorded a note that he had personally examined Respondent No. 2 and gave his findings as under -
" CHOREA: Patient is suffering f
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