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2016 Supreme(Ker) 240

ASHOK BHUSHAN, A.M.SHAFFIQUE
UNION OF INDIA REPRESENTED BY SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS FREEDOM FIGHTERS DIVISION, NEW DELHI – Appellant
Versus
SUBHADRA – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : SRI. S. KRISHNAMOORTHY, CGC.
For the Respondent: SRI. P.I. DAVIS, SR. GOVERNMENT PLEADER & SMT. P.R. REENA, ADV.

JUDGMENT :

A.M. SHAFFIQUE, J.

1. This appeal is filed by the 1st respondent in the writ petition challenging judgment dated 30/06/2015 in WP (C) No. 29317/2013 by which the learned Single Judge allowed the writ petition quashing Ext.P6 and directing the appellant to grant freedom fighter's pension to the petitioner within a period of three months.

2. The short facts involved in the writ petition would disclose that the petitioner, being the wife of Sri. M.K. Karunakaran, applied for freedom fighter's pension under the Swathantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme on the ground that her husband late Sri. M.K. Karunakaran had participated in the freedom movement of the nation. According to the petitioner, her husband remained underground for six months and more and he was a proclaimed offender. Petitioner's husband earlier filed an application for pension and there was delay in processing the same. After his death, petitioner filed WP(C) No.36025/2004 before this Court. The learned Single Judge directed the Central Government to grant pension to the petitioner. In the appeal filed as W.A. No.1054/2012, the Division Bench allowed the appeal directing the petitioner to furnish necessary detai






















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