This is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India filed by the petitioner for directing the Union of India and other authorities to release to her the family pension etc. in respect of the deceased Assam Regiment Personnel.

2. I have heard Mr. D. K. Thapa, the learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. P. Dey, the learned Central Government Counsel, appearing for the Union of India and other authorities. None appeared for the respondent No. 7 despite proper service of notice upon him.

3. Shorn of unnecessary details, the case of the petitioner is that she is legally married wife of the late Joshua P. Dailova, who was a Sepoy bearing registration No. 4361900 in the 15th Assam Regiment and who died on 5-5-1998 while performing duty in "Operation Meghdoot" in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the petitioner, after the death of her deceased husband, she was turned out from her matrimonial home by her father-in-law., namely, Kaibuaia Mizo, (the respondent No. 7 herein), whereupon she had to take shelter at her parental house at Madanriting, Shillong. It is pleaded by the petitioner that the deceased had made her as his nominee in his service record and that aft