( 1 ) THE petitioner challenges an award of the Respondent No. 1,, a Lok Adalat, dated 6-4-1999 by way of this writ petition.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is the Port Trust of visakhapatnam with whom one Mr. B. Gangulu was an employee and who retired as orehandling labour with taken No. 759 voluntarily on medical grounds. The employee nominated his wife Appala narsamma in the year 1988 as the nominee for the purpose of entitling to the retirement benefits. Later, in the year 1994 he revised the nomination in favour of the second respondent herein, the second wife, namely, b. Chinna Talli. Thus, he had two wives; appala Narsamma and Chinna Talli. Through Appala Narsamma he had one son and two daughters, Sri Ramulu, demudamma and Kankamma, whereas through the second wife i. e. , respondent no. 2 herein he had two daughters Jyothi laxmi and Nagamma aged 19 and 16 years respectively; The first wife Appala narsamma divorced B. Gangulu about 12 years prior to the impugned proceedings and married one Polisetti Ramulu and living with him whereas her three children born through Gangulu were already married and settled. However the two daughters of second wife Chinna Talli are stil