A retired disabled Mumbai Fire Bridge Officer, whose pleas to get his retirement dues cleared has fallen into deaf ears, is looking at an uncertain future as the day to vacate his official quarters is approaching fast. This is amid his difficulty to meet the expenses for his monthly medicine and attendant’s allowances as he has not received any payment since his retirement three months ago.

The worst is that if the officer, Vishwajeet Nikam, 58, fails to vacate the quarters at Byculla by this week, his gratuity payment will be withheld and he will also have to pay exorbitant rent to the corporation for overstaying in the official quarters. The department has allegedly made Nikam, who was rendered wheelchair-bound after sustaining serious spinal cord injury and losing a limb while in service 14 years ago, sign an affidavit stating that he would vacate the quarters within three months of his retirement.