Petitioner Marakkal, the wife of late S. Rengasamy, filed this writ petition to issue a writ of certiorarified Mandamus or any other appropriate writ or order in the nature of writ by calling for the records from respondents 1 and 2, i.e. the Government of India represented by its Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, and Government of Tamil Nadu represented by its Secretary, Public Department, Madras respectively, in their proceedings No. 129/174/81-FFSZ dated 12-9-1985 and L.W. No. 8879/81-14- Public (pp. IV) Department, D/-23-4-1986 and quash the same and direct the first and second respondents to grant pension under the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980 (Centre) and Freedom Fighters' Pension (State) Pension Scheme.

2. In support of the said writ petition, the petitioner has sworn to an affidavit in which she has stated that her husband, late S. Rengasamy was a Freedom Fighter and he participated in the individual Sathyagraha in 1941 and also in Quit India Movement in 1942 against the British Government and he was imprisoned and suffered imprisonment in various jails for more than 11 months. Her husband applied for the grant of Swatantrata Saini