JAIPUR: Rajasthan HC Thursday ordered the commercial taxes department to release within seven days the full salary and arrears of one of its officers who has been without pay for over a year since slipping into a coma in Aug 2023. HC passed the order after hearing a plea by the officer’s wife. The petitioner’s counsel said the officer, Surendra Singh Chawra from Bhilwara, had been appointed to the department in 2006. He went on to become an assistant commercial tax officer, Pratapgarh circle, after several promotions. “On Aug 7, 2023, he suffered a brain haemorrhage and underwent surgery. He slipped into a coma soon after and remains in that state to this day,” the petitioner’s counsel told HC. The department paid Chawra’s salary for a year after the mishap, until Aug 2024, against

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