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2025 Supreme(Online)(UK) 197043

HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
BIRA DEVI – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent


Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings S N L o . .

Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS and Registrar’s order with Signatures WPSS 407/ 2025 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Pawan Sanwal, Advocate, for the petitioners.

Mr. Saurabh Adhikari, Central Govt.

Standing Counsel, for the respondents.

(2) Petitioner’s husband was employed as Peon in WATS, which is a wing of Sashastra Seema Bal, Ministry of Home, Government of India. He passed away on 22.6.2020. Petitioner applied for family pension, however pension was not sanctioned to her on account of some discrepancy in her name.

(3) According to petitioner, her name was incorrectly described as Mathura Devi in the service record of her late husband, which should be recorded as Bira Devi, which is her actual name. By means of this writ petition, petitioner has sought the following reliefs:

“(i) Issue a writ, order, or direction in the nature of mandamus, commanding the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioner for granting family pension after the death of her husband.

(ii) Issue a writ, order, or direction in the nature of mandamus, commanding the respondents to pay the arrears of pensionary benefits w.e.f. the date o

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