Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 403 · Decided 20 September 1994
Kanta Devi v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 403 · [1994] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 710
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 294/1990
- Decided
- 20 September 1994
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, B.L. HANSARIA (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 14
Headnote
Service Law : ._ Anny Instructions No. 51 of 198()-/>ara 6-Note(2)-:Family-Not C recognising maniages after retirement of anny personnel-Consequent denial ·of family pension to widow of ex-~ervicemmr-Held: Harsh and heartless provision and hence Note(2) struck down. The petitioner, a which D defm:ed "family", though includes wife, said in Note (2) that marriage after retirement would not be recognised. This was challenged by the petitioner in this Writ Petition. E F G Allowing the writ petition, this Court HELD : 1. It cannot be said that marriages after
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