STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. SAFEDI DEVI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) INSTANT second appeal has been filed by defendant -appellants assailing the concurrent finding of fact recorded by both the courts below.

(2.) NON -petitioner -plaintiff filed a suit for release of her family pension to which she became entitled for on account of death of her husband who joined service in the government as Cattle Guard on 1st February, 1980 and while in service he died on 20th July, 1995 where he was working on the workcharged basis. After his death, when family pension was not released to her, she questioned the same by filing a civil suit. Under Workcharged Service Rules, 1964, an employee who is initially appointed under workcharged, he becomes entitled for seeking declaration of semipermanent status and also permanent status on completion of 2 & 10 years of service under Rule 3(ii) & (iii) of the Rules. Her husband completed more than 10 years of service and was required to get declaration of being a permanent employee under the Rules, but no order to this effect has been passed by the Government.

(3.) COUNSEL for appellant further submits that suit itself was not maintainable. Since her husband was a workman and any dispute if arose, only remedy available to the non -petitioner plaintiff was to raise industrial dispute.