R. SUBRAMANIAN, J.

1. This Intra Court Appeal is directed against the order of the learned Single Judge dated 12.07.2017 made in WP No. 17648 of 2017, wherein, the claim of the appellant herein for grant for family pension was rejected on the ground that the appellant, being the second wife of the deceased pensioner, is entitled to family pension.

2. The facts that led to the filing of the Writ Petition are as follows:

The petitioner/appellant claimed that she was married to one C. Rethinasamy as a second wife on 19.08.1980. The said Rethinasamy was working in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and he retired from service on 31.10.2002 and he died on 01.10.2013. Even in the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition, it is stated that prior to the marriage with the appellant/petitioner, the said Rethinasamy had married one Sundarammal and out of the said marriage they had two children, viz. R. Gavaskar and R. Karthiga. It is claimed that since Sundarammal deserted her husband Rethinasamy, he had married the appellant/ petitioner as the second wife even during the subsistence of the first marriage. Subsequently, the first marriage came to be dissolved on 07.10.2003. Claimi