Family Pension Archives

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CAT | Can family pension be equated with a compassionate appointment? Can employer deny grant of one benefit because the other one was refused by beneficiary? Tribunal answers

Central Administrative Tribunal: Mohd. Jamshed, Member (A), held that compassionate appointment cannot be equated with family pension. Slamming the respondents for their

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CAT | Widow of a substitute servant cannot be denied rights of family pension and death-cum-retirement benefits accorded to temporary servants

Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT): Pradeep Kumar, Member (A) addressed the instant application wherein the widow of one Narayan Dutt, who was engaged

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AFT | Widow of deceased renounces matrimonial house leaving mother-in-law in destitute; Mother and widow entitled to equal shares of family pension

Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT): The Division Bench of Justice Umesh Chandra Srivastava (Chairperson) and Vice Admiral Abhay Raghunath Karve (Member) A heard

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AFT | “Deceased was on advance annual leave when he met with accident” Tribunal denied special family pension to widow of ex-servicemen

Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT): The Division Bench of Justice Umesh Chandra Srivastava (Chairperson) and Vice Admiral Abhay Raghunath Karve (Member) A, heard

Fact Checks News

Fact Check: Has the Punjab & Haryana High Court observed that a wife is eligible for family pension even if she murders her husband?

An article published by India Today claimed that the Punjab and Haryana High Court in an unusual judgment had recently observed that

Case Briefs High Courts

All HC | Can pension of deceased be deducted while granting compensation to his widow in a motor accident case? HC elaborates

Allahabad High Court: Dr Kaushal Jayendra Thaker, J., modified the sum of the award granted to a widow by the Motor Accident Claims

Case Briefs High Courts

Chh HC | Second wife, wedded in contravention of S. 5 HMA, held not entitled to share in family pension of deceased Government employee

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agrawal, J. allowed a second appeal filed by the first wife of the deceased who died in harness

Case Briefs High Courts

Megh HC | Family pension is admissible to post-retiral spouses and children born/adopted legally after retirement

Meghalaya High Court: H.S. Thangkhiew, J. directed respondents 1 and 2 to substitute the name of petitioner in place of the deceased

Case Briefs High Courts

Chh HC | Govt. servant cannot make Will of family pension; guiding principles regarding retiral benefits vis-a-vis testamentary disposition recapitulated

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agrawal, J. has held that a Government servant is not entitled to make a Will of the family

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AFT | Claim for family pension not maintainable if name of applicant not mentioned in service records of the deceased soldier

Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT): The Bench of S.V.S. Rathore, J. and Lt. General N.B. Singh (Member) dismissed an application challenging the denial of

Case Briefs High Courts

Freedom Fighter’s Dependant Family Pension granted from the date of sanctioning order and not the date of submission of application

Kerala High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Alexander Thomas, J. while hearing civil writ petition filed for grant of freedom

Case Briefs High Courts

Under amended Rule 48 of the Meghalaya Civil Services (Pension) Rules a married daughter cannot claim family pension

Meghalaya High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, CJ., dismissed a petition claiming the family pension. Facts of

Case Briefs High Courts

Family pension denied to second wife as marriage was solemnized during subsistence of first marriage

Meghalaya High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, CJ. dismissed a writ petition filed against the order of

Case Briefs High Courts

Marriage of elder daughter of deceased government servant confers an unassailable right to family pension on the unmarried/widowed younger daughter

Madras High Court: A Bench comprising of S.S. Sundar, J. has directed the respondent Accountant General, to disburse the family pension to

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Parents of a married officer not entitled to receive the pension amount as per the the Family Pension Scheme, 1964

Supreme Court: In the matter where the widow of a Government Employee aggrieved by the order of the High Court of Punjab

Case Briefs High Courts

Second wife of a deceased government employee is qualified to claim family pension without requiring to produce her marriage certificate

Madras High Court: While considering an interesting issue that whether the second wife of the deceased government employee is entitled to claim