JUDGMENT :

1. This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been preferred claiming the following reliefs:

“It is therefore, prayed that this writ petition may kindly be allowed and :

(a) The record of the case may kindly be called for;

(b) By appropriate writ, order or direction, the order dated 24.01.2022 (Annexure-9) may be quashed and set aside.

(c) By appropriate writ, order or direction, the respondents may be directed to release the compensation amount to Rs.50 Lakhs under the P.M.G.K.Y. Scheme in the name of the petitioner.

(d) Any other order or direction which the Hon’ble Court feels appropriate in favour of the petitioner in light of justice, equity and good conscience may also be passed.

(e) Cost of the petition may kindly be awarded to the petitioner.”

2. Brief facts of the case, as placed before this Court by learned counsel for the petitioner, are that the petitioner’s husband, Late Shri Rajesh Kumar Mali, was a nursing officer engaged on contractual basis through M/s. Bedi and Bedi Associates in rendering duty in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Covid patients at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur w.e.f. 13.12.2016; and thus being