ORDER

(Per: Mr. Rajinder Singh Dogra, Judicial Member)

1. SWP 1273/2018 has been filed by the petitioners in the Hon’ble High Court and after the reorganization of State of Jammu and Kashmir into Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh and in view of the Notification No. G.S.R. 267 (E) dated 29.04.2020 read with notification No. G.S.R. 317 (E) dated 28.05.2020 issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Personnel and Training), the jurisdiction to adjudicate upon the list regarding service disputes of the employees of UT of J&K and Ladakh was conferred upon this Tribunal and while considering the said fact, the record of SWP 1273/2018 was ordered to be transferred by the Hon'ble High Court of J&K to this Tribunal and renumbered as Transferred Application No. TA 2398/2020.

2. The brief of the case in nutshell as per facts mentioned in TA that petitioner being the second wife of late Mohd, Ikhlaq, is being denied family pension despite no-objection and consent having been given by the first wife-respondent No. 6 for such grant of family pension in favour of the petitioner and despite such second marriage being legal and valid as having the s