JUDGMENT :

A.P. Sahi, J.

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 20.07.2018 passed in W.P.No.28357 of 2008 on the file of this Court.)

1. This is a very peculiar case on the given facts where the appellant is said to have married one R.Govindarajan in 1985 and a male child was born from the wedlock, who was earlier named as Ramkumar and is stated to be now known as G.Ravikumar.

2. The appellant herself discloses that she started living with one Mr.K.H.Aseef after the death of her husband, which she now describes not to be a valid marriage. But, in order to continue to receive the family pension after the death of her husband, she represented herself voluntarily before the Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department that she got remarried on 25.11.1991 to Mr.Aseef and therefore, the pension may now be continued in favour of her then minor son whose date of birth is 19.07.1986. Acting upon the said representation of the appellant, the Superintending Engineer passed an order on 18.07.1992 in terms of Rule 49 of the Tamil Nadu Pension Rules, 1978 extending the benefit of family pension to be paid to the said minor under the guardianship of h