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Issues: Whether medical reimbursement paid to an Excise Guard deputed to a distillery, in respect of treatment of his father, could be recovered from the distillery as part of the "cost of establishment" under Rule 14 of the Kerala Distillery & Warehouse Rules, 1968.
Analysis: Rule 14 requires the distiller to pay the cost of establishment, which is defined with reference to pay, allowance, leave salary and pension contribution. The provision contemplates ascertainable establishment expenses payable in advance and does not extend to medical reimbursement under the Kerala Government Service Medical Attendant Rules, 1960. A deputed Government servant continues to remain in Government service, but the distillery is liable only for the establishment costs expressly covered by the Warehouse Rules. Medical reimbursement is a separate service benefit and cannot be shifted to the distillery merely because the employee was on deputation there. Only expenses arising from an employment injury, if any, could stand on a different footing.
Conclusion: The recovery of the reimbursement of medical expenses from the distillery was not permissible. The judgment of the learned Single Judge was affirmed and the appeal was dismissed.
Ratio Decidendi: Under Rule 14 of the Kerala Distillery & Warehouse Rules, 1968, the expression "cost of establishment" is confined to the establishment expenses expressly contemplated by the rule and does not include medical reimbursement under a separate service-benefit regime.
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