MANORAMA DEVI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE writ petitioner Kashi Nath Pandey who filed the present writ petition died during its pendency and then his widow has been substituted as petitioner in his place.

(2.) IN order to test the legality and propriety of the order under challenge, contained in Annexure -13 dated 9.10.2000 by the respondent No. 3, it is relevant to notice some of the reported decisions with regard to the cases under Freedom Fighters Pension Scheme, 1972.

(3.) FOLLOWING the decision of the Apex Court in the case of Gurdial Singh, a Division Bench of this Court in the case of Syed Muhammad Muztar v. Union of India, reported in 2002 (2) JLJR 232 also directed the respondents to extend the benefit of the Scheme to the writ petitioner.