Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 89 · Decided 31 January 2017
Jagdamba Devi v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 89 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 481
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1260/2017
- Decided
- 31 January 2017
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Freedom Fighter: Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension ·Scheme, 1980 - Dependent family pension - Benefit under the Scheme - Freedo111 fighter, accused and arrested in a cri111inal case e111anating jro111 freedom struggle 111ove111ent - Claim of pension by widow - Eligibility-Held: Freedom undergroul}d within the meaning of the Scheme for more than six months or undergoing .sentence for more than six 111onths and as such he was ineligible - Being 'underground' is not synonymous to being as 'absconder' - Further, there were discrepancies and ambiguities relating to the documents
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