1. A benevolent scheme framed by respondent No.1 has proved to be the nemesis and a brooding ground for perennial litigation for the petitioner’s family.

2. In recognition of the sacrifices made by the freedom fighters of our country, respondent No.1 has come out with the scheme, by name, Swathantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980. It has provided for payment of pension to the persons, who participated in the freedom struggle, subject to fulfilment of certain conditions contained in the Scheme. To this scheme was added another category, namely, boarder camp sufferers in Hyderabad Liberation Movement. A special nonofficial Screening Committee was formed to identify and recommend the cases of boarder camps. The husband of the petitioner participated in Anti Nizam Government Movement for merger of Hyderabad State into Indian Union and made his application on 27.09.1989 for sanction of pension as a boarder camp sufferer. As his application did not receive the attention it deserved, he filed W.P.No.5262 of 1994, which was disposed of by this Court on 11.09.1995 with the direction to the Union of India to place the papers before the Screening Committee constituted for th