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PRATEEK JALAN
Bhim Singh – Appellant
Versus
AGM State Bank of India – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
PRATEEK JALAN, J.
The proceedings in the matter have been conducted through hybrid mode [physical and virtual mode].
1. By way of the present writ petition, the petitioner seeks a direction upon the respondent/State Bank of India [“the Bank”] to release an amount of Rs. 30,000 per month to him from the bank account of his incapacitated nephew, Mr. Ajit Kumar Singh [“AKS”].
2. The case of the petitioner is that AKS has been rendered incapacitated and bedridden as he has been suffering from acute ischemic strokes since 2018. According to the petitioner, AKS’s health worsened in November, 2020, for which he had to be hospitalized. A discharge report of the Department of Neurology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi [“AIIMS”] dated 07.11.2020 has been placed on record [Annexure P-3 to the writ petition] in this regard. He further submits that an amount of Rs. 30,000 per month would be required so as to meet AKS’s daily and medical expenditure, including doctors’ fees, medicines, food, therapist, nurse etc. Although AKS is married and has two children (who were impleaded in this petition as respondent nos. 3 to 5 vide order dated 11.01.2021), it is stated th
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