JUDGMENT :

Per Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

1. This writ petition is under Article 226 of the Constitution of India directed against the order dated 14.03.2023 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Circuit Bench, Ranchi in O.A. No.051/00078/2023 whereby and whereunder the relief as was sought for by the writ petitioner before the learned Tribunal for holding her entitled to get the benefit of family pension, has been denied to be given.

2. The brief facts of the case as per the pleadings made in the writ petition, which are required to be enumerated, read hereunder as:-

3. It is the case of the petitioner that the husband of the petitioner, late Barhan Mandal was appointed in Railway on 08.04.1984 and took Voluntary Retirement from service as Shunt Man on 31.03.2016, after rendering nearly 32 years of unblemished service.

4. The husband of the petitioner solemnized marriage with Late Dhaneshwari Devi but Dhaneshwari Devi left the matrimonial house. Since Late Dhaneshwari Devi left the matrimonial house, there was no female in the house to look after the father and mother of Late Barhan Mandal (husband of the petitioner) and at this situation the father of the Late Barhan Mandal sol