JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Petitionfiled Under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a Writ ofCertiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records pertaining to the Impugned (No.34592/Pension 2/MTC/2013) order dated 31.12.2013 passed by the 2ndrespondent and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondents to grant family pension from December 2013 to the petitioner.)

1. The order of rejection, rejecting the family pension to the writ petitioner is under challenge in the present writ petition.

2. The writ petitioner states that she got married to Late M.Radhakrishnan on 05.01.1994. The husband of the writ petitioner Mr. M.Radhakrishnan was serving as Conductor in the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation. He was promoted to the post of Checking Inspector on 30.12.1986 and further promoted as Traffic Inspector and retired from service on 21.03.2003.

3. The petitioner states that her husband earlier married one Smt. Meenakshi and the said Meenakshi has deserted the husband of the writ petitioner in the year 1972. The petitioner states that the said Meenakshi had severed in the marital Bond in the year 1993 by receiving a settlement of alimony at Rs.45,000/-. Though the decea