Chandigarh, June 5 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed a Punjab government undertaking to release the medical reimbursement amount of an employee, pending for nearly a decade despite sanction by the competent authority.

The bills were kept on hold as the record submitted by the employee was misplaced by the corporation and he expressed his inability to produce certified copies of the bills from the doctor again, seven years after he had initially submitted and got approved.

The high court bench of justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa directed for the release of the reimbursement amount, observing that if the respondents have misplaced the medical bills, there is no fault of the petitioner.

In the case in hand, the petition was f...