SUMITRA VERMA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Ram Chandra holding brief of Sri Gauri Shankar, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing counsel for Union of India.

(2.) PETITIONER has filed this writ petition praying for a writ of mandamus directing the opposite parties to allow family pension and other dues of her late husband to her. Petitioner is the wife of late Acharya Dev Verma, who was an employee of Census Department at Lucknow. He died in harness on 19.2.2003.

(3.) THIS is appalling kind of statement which has left the Court dumb founded. A senior officer of the central government speaking the language of 'Zamindar' is beyond the imagination of this Court. Approaching this Court for a valid legal grievance is a right given to the citizen of this country. Article 32 of the Constitution of India reads as under: -