JUDGMENT

V. Kameswar Rao (Oral)--The challenge in this Writ Petition is to an order dated August 03, 2017, passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (`Tribunal' for short) in O.A. No. 2131/2017, whereby the Tribunal has allowed the O.A. filed by the respondent, who, we have been informed, had since expired.

2. The Legal Representatives (`LRs' for short) of the respondent have been brought on record. The amended memo of parties has also been taken on record, in terms of order dated February 01, 2022.

3. The case of the deceased employee before the Tribunal was that he joined the petitioner no. 1 organization i.e. Delhi Transport Corporation in the year 1984 as an Assistant Store Keeper. He retired from the post on attaining the age of superannuation on June 30, 2017. While the deceased employee was employed in the petitioner no. 1, he was suffering from certain chronic diseases. He was also availing treatment for his ailments from Sanjeevan Medical Research Center (P) Ltd., which is an empanelled hospital of the petitioner No. 1, as an OPD patient and buying medicines, as prescribed by the concerned doctor of the said hospital from open market and ha