JUDGMENT :

B.R. Sarangi, J.

The petitioner, who is the disabled son and legal representative of the deceased central government employee, has filed this writ petition seeking to quash the order dated 25.04.2013 passed in O.A. No.538 of 2012, by which the Central Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack has denied to grant arrear family pension to the petitioner from the date of discontinuance and held that the payment of family pension to the petitioner will be effectively regulated by the notification dated 27.12.2012 and O.M. dated 16.01.2013 issued by the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, Government of India.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that the father of the petitioner was an employee of the Government of India Press in Santragachi, Howarah and was in receipt of pension after his retirement from service till the date of his death, i.e., 11.3.1991. Thereafter, mother of the petitioner received family pension till her death on 10.11.1999. The petitioner, being a physically handicapped suffering from congenital Nystagmus of 100% disability of visual and being the legal heir and entitled to receive family pension as per sub-rule (6) of Rule-54 of C