Medical Re-verification of Disability of Govt. Employees
Whether the Act of 2016 and the Rules of 2017 recognize the rights of employers to ask its employees with disability certificates or with benchmark disability to undergo a fresh assessment of their disability?
Respondent ZP is entitled to take action against the Petitioners whose disability is found to be less than 40% in the re-assessment process?
The State Government has noticed this to be deep rooted, in practically every district in the State of Maharashtra. With lakhs of employees engaged in Government/Semi-Government/Local Authorities/State Instrumentalities, it is most difficult to pinpoint a particular case of fraud, without a medical re-examination.
Reassessment is, therefore, the only reliable way to uncover fraudulent disability claims because it goes beyond checking documents and directly examines the person’s current, real medical condition. Fraud in disability benefits usually happens at the certification stage when a person misrepresents impairment, exaggerates symptoms, or uses influence or false documentation, to obtain a certificate. A UDID card or certificate alone cannot determine whether the person was genuinely disabled at the time of issuance or is still disabled today.
Judgment dated 6.5.2026 of the
Whether the Act of 2016 and the Rules of 2017 recognize the rights of employers to ask its employees with disability certificates or with benchmark disability to undergo a fresh assessment of their disability?
Respondent ZP is entitled to take action against the Petitioners whose disability is found to be less than 40% in the re-assessment process?
The State Government has noticed this to be deep rooted, in practically every district in the State of Maharashtra. With lakhs of employees engaged in Government/Semi-Government/Local Authorities/State Instrumentalities, it is most difficult to pinpoint a particular case of fraud, without a medical re-examination.
Reassessment is, therefore, the only reliable way to uncover fraudulent disability claims because it goes beyond checking documents and directly examines the person’s current, real medical condition. Fraud in disability benefits usually happens at the certification stage when a person misrepresents impairment, exaggerates symptoms, or uses influence or false documentation, to obtain a certificate. A UDID card or certificate alone cannot determine whether the person was genuinely disabled at the time of issuance or is still disabled today.
Judgment dated 6.5.2026 of the Hgh Court of Bombay in Writ Petition No.4325 of 2026 of Santosh Hiraman Lashkare Vs. The State of Maharashtra and four others with connected writ petitions.
Whether the Act of 2016 and the Rules of 2017 recognize the rights of employers to ask its employees with disability certificates or with benchmark disability to undergo a fresh assessment of their disability?
Respondent ZP is entitled to take action against the Petitioners whose disability is found to be less than 40% in the re-assessment process?
The State Government has noticed this to be deep rooted, in practically every district in the State of Maharashtra. With lakhs of employees engaged in Government/Semi-Government/Local Authorities/State Instrumentalities, it is most difficult to pinpoint a particular case of fraud, without a medical re-examination.
Reassessment is, therefore, the only reliable way to uncover fraudulent disability claims because it goes beyond checking documents and directly examines the person’s current, real medical condition. Fraud in disability benefits usually happens at the certification stage when a person misrepresents impairment, exaggerates symptoms, or uses influence or false documentation, to obtain a certificate. A UDID card or certificate alone cannot determine whether the person was genuinely disabled at the time of issuance or is still disabled today.
Judgment dated 6.5.2026 of the High Court of Bombay in Writ Petition No.4325 of 2026 of Santosh Hiraman Lashkare Vs. The State of Maharashtra and four others with connected writ petitions.i
High Court of Bombay in Writ Petition No.4325 of 2026 of Santosh Hiraman Lashkare Vs. The State of Maharashtra and four others with connected writ petitions.
