ORDER :

This Writ Petition is filed, seeking the following relief :

“…..to issue a Writ, Order or direction to direct the respondent No.2 to take necessary action to cancel the Family Pension granted to the Respondent No.4 vide P.P.O.No.23-012826 SP and STO and PPO ID 0103-22381 and consequently grant the Family Pension to the petitioner, who is the legally wedded wife of the said Late Jayanandam and pass such other orders.”

2. Heard Mr. Swati Guda, learned counsel for the petitioner; learned Government Pleader, Services-I; Mr. K. Swarna Seshu and Mr. S. Harinatha Reddy, learned counsel appearing for the respective respondents.

3. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner is the legally wedded wife of Late Yandava Jayanandam, who worked as Mandal Praja Parishad Development Officer, Itchapuram and retired from service in the month of July, 2011. The petitioner and late Jayanandam got married as per Christian Customs and rights on 07.06.1990. Out of legal wedlock, they blessed a daughter by name Sanjana on 04.05.1994. Subsequently the late Jayanandam developed illicit intimacy with 4th respondent and took her to his house and left the conjugal society of the petitioner in the y