The petitioner, a serving Head Constable belonging to the Uniformed Services of the State of Tamil Nadu and attached to the Katchampatty Police Station, Thiruvannamalai District, has filed the present writ petition seeking to challenge the order dated 012. 2005 passed by the second respondent in rejecting his request for availing assistance under the Tamil Nadu Government Employees Health Fund Scheme for having undergone an Angioplasty in an approved private Hospital.

2. The petitioner, having joined the service in the Vellore Armed Reserve on 19. 1980, got transferred to law and order in the year 1989. He was promoted as Grade – I Constable in the year 1995 and got further promoted as Head Constable in the year 2000. When he was working in the Police Station at Eraiyur, on 11. 2002, all of a sudden, he developed cardiac problem while he was on duty and he was rushed to the Government Hospital, Thirupattur, for first aid treatment and as per the advise of the Doctor in that Government Hospital, he was taken to the Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, for proper and further treatment for his heart ailment. He was admitted in the said Hospital in Chennai on 111. 2002 and after an i