ORDER :

1. This petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the following relief:

“......to declare the action of the respondents in not settling the family pension to the applicant for the last 13 years consequent on death of her husband Sri Shanwaz while in service on 31.10.2003 while working as Pump Mechanic in Puttur Mandal without any justification or reasonable cause under the guise of correspondence between the respondents is, as illegal, arbitrary, unjust and violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution and consequently hold that the applicant is entitled for release of family pension with effect from 1.11.2003 with all consequential benefits including revision of pension and pensionary benefits by fixing the pay of the applicants husband in 1999 and 2005 PRCs and also interest on belated payments of family pension apart from compensation of Rs. 2,00,000/- for the mental agony suffered by the applicant all these years in the hands of the respondents and pass such other order or orders....”

2. Brief facts of the case are that the husband of the petitioner by name Sri Shaik Shanawaz was appointed as Mechanic of Bore well and while he was in se