ORAL JUDGMENT

1. Rule returnable forthwith. Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, learned AGP waives service of notice of Rule on behalf of respondents no. 1 to 4. Though served, none appears for respondent no. 5.

2. The petitioner – widow of deceased employee Parshottambhai Premjibhai Baldha has approached this court for grant of family pension and other terminal benefits which she is entitled to on the death of her husband who was serving with respondent no. 5 – School as a teacher. Unfortunately, the deceased – husband of the petitioner who was to retire on 24.04.2011 died four days before i.e. on 20.04.2011. The petitioner made an application seeking family pension and other consequential benefits. It is the case of the petitioner that the District Education Officer, Rajkot by a communication dated 27.05.2013 had forwarded the papers to the District Treasury Office. It is undisputed that the petitioner was nominated and was being paid provisional pension. Since the case of the petitioner for final pension and family pension was not being finalised, the petitioner raised several grievances before the authorities. The only ground on which the case of the petitioner for family pension and other ben