JUDGMENT :

P.V.KUNHIKRISHNAN, J.

1. The respondents in OP(CAT) 168/2014 on the file of Central Administrative Tribunal are the petitioners in this Original Petition. The Original Petition was filed by the respondent/applicant herein for a declaration that the nonfeasance on the part of the respondent to include the name of K.Sathyabhama as the applicant's wife, as a family pension beneficiary and for all other purpose like post retirement benefits, medical treatments etc is arbitrary, discriminatory contrary to law and unconstitutional. There were also other consequential reliefs also prayed for .

2. The case of the respondent/applicant before the Tribunal is that he is a retired railway employee, who superannuated on 31.12.2012, while working as Goods Guard(Traffic). According to the respondent/applicant, he married Smt.K.Sathyabhama, the elder sister of his wife late Sreedevi who died on 31.12.2011. Thereafter respondent /applicant submitted an application before the authorities, with a request to change the nominee in his service records. Death certificate of his first wife Sreedevi and marriage certificate evidencing his marriage with K.Sathyabhama were also produced along with th