been declared medically unfit on account of her having
undergone LASIK Surgery in the right eye. The exact words used in the medical
report were ... under:-
"unfit on account of LASIK Surgery D/E, for the post."
The figures in respect of visual acuity were as under
mentioned that Lasik surgery is not listed
under CGHS of surgeries. As per medical
literature, In a LASIK procedure, a laser is used to
reshape ... LASIK is
shorthand for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis. LASIK or Lasik
(Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis), commonly referred to as laser eye
surgery
Govt. Hospital on the issue where the applicant has undergone any Lasik Surgery and any other problem as per the Medical Requirement of the Railway ... declared unfit on the ground that he had undergone Lasik surgery. The applicant was shocked by these findings as according to him he had never
unfit' on the ground of his having undergone Lasik Surgery.
2. Pursuant thereto the petitioner before us passed an order dated
28th February ... 2078/2012 submitting that he had undergone the Lasik
Surgery for correction of his eye sight which could not be termed as
disqualification and consequently
surgical correction of eye sight by a process
commonly known as Lasik surgery. Post surgery the distal and near vision
is as per the prescribed ... permitted Refractive Refractive Refractive Refractive
Surgery* Surgery* like Surgery like Surgery like
like Lasik, ICL, Lasik, ICL, Lasik, ICL,
Lasik
Lasik Centre, they developed good acquaintance with them. While so, it is stated that Dr. Ravi Shanker of the Lasik Centre suggested Lasik Surgery ... Lasik Centre but of no avail.
4. The Lasik Centre resisted the claim by filing their Written Version, stating that the Lasik Surgery involves raising
ground that the applicants have undergone vision correction surgery (refractive surgery), also known as LASIK surgery vide the impugned report dated 24.12.2013 at Annexure ... glasses, it would imply without any surgery as well. Accordingly, candidate who was undergone refractive surgery LASIK had been declared unfit for the post
Geological Survey of India (GSI).
12. Thereafter, the petitioner underwent LASIK surgery. She requested a
second medical examination. The same was allowed. The petitioner ... unfit due to correction of her vision by way
of LASIK surgery after the first Medical Examination. After the LASIK surgery,
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the petitioner
vision was defective and had been sought to be
corrected by LASIK surgery. Although her vision after LASIK surgery
met the standards prescribed ... very fact that this
deficiency was sought to be corrected by LASIK surgery made her
ineligible for the post.
She preferred the instant writ petition
held as medically
unfit only on account of his having undergone LASIK surgery and has
thereby wrongly been excluded from the selection process. She submits ... that
LASIK surgery cannot be a ground for declaring a candidate as medically
unfit for appointment to the CAPF.
3. By relying on paragraph
