HEERA DEVI Vs. STATE OF UTTARANCHAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri C. D. Bahuguna, Advo cate for the petitioner and Standing Counsel for the respondents.

(2.) THE present writ petition has been filed for a writ of mandamus di recting the respondents to pay the pen sion and other outstanding dues of her husband to the petitioner w. e. f. 16-03-1983 (when her husband was retired from service on ground of ill-health) to 28-03-1989; and pay family pension to the petitioner with effect from 29-03-1989 when her husband died due to his continued ill-health.

(3.) IT has been stated by the peti tioner in Paragraph 9 and 11 of the writ petition that the Deputy Director, Ani mal Husbandry, Kumaun Division, Nainital vide his letter dated 20-08-1996, Annexure-1 to the writ petition, directed the Chief Veterinary Officer, Pithoragarh to take appropriate steps for providing family pension to the pe titioner. The relevant portion of the let ter of the Deputy Director dated 20-08-1996 is reproduced below: Hindi