State of Uttarakhand vs Sarita Singh

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2026 Supreme(SC) 365

J. K. MAHESHWARI, ATUL S. CHANDURKAR
State of Uttarakhand – Appellant
Versus
Sarita Singh – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Gaurav Bhatia, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR Ms. Anubha Dhulia, Adv. Mr. Neelmani Guha, Adv. Mr. Sunny Sachin Rawat, Adv. Mr. Shivam Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Pranshu Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Saakshi Singh Rawat,Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Vijay Hansaria, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kavya Jhawar, Adv. Ms. Nandini Rai, Adv. Mr. Aashay Shukla, Adv. Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, AOR Mr. Shaurya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Shivranjani Ralawata, Adv. Mr. Vikramjeet Banerjee, A.S.G. (Not Present) Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Chinmayee Chandra, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. S K Gupta, Adv. Mokshita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Prateek Bhatia, AOR Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR Mr. Kumar Saurav, Adv.

Table of Content
1. compensation entitlement following duty-related death. (Para 2 , 3 , 4)
2. high court's findings and compensation calculations. (Para 5 , 6)
3. arguments against extraordinary pension entitlement. (Para 7 , 8)
4. legal procedural requirements for extraordinary pension. (Para 10 , 11)
5. governor's discretion in sanctioning extraordinary pension. (Para 12 , 14 , 15)
6. modification of high court order on extraordinary pension. (Para 16 , 17)

JUDGMENT :

ATUL S. CHANDURKAR, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The State of Uttarakhand through its Chief Secretary is aggrieved by the judgment dated 12.09.2018 in Writ Petition No.284 of 2017 whereby the State Government has been directed to pay an amount of compensation of Rs.1,99,09,000/- with interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum to the first respondent. A further direction has been issued for grant of extraordinary pension to the first respondent under the Uttar Pradesh Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1981¹[For short, the Rules of 1981] as adopted by the State of Uttarakhand, within a period of ten weeks along with interest at the rate of 8.5 % per annum on the amount of arrears.

3. One Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh got himself reg