Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 855 · Decided 16 July 2025
Mala Devi v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 855 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 221
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 10672/2016
- Decided
- 16 July 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142
Headnote
Whether in the facts and circumstances of the case, the Appellant is entitled to family pension of her late husband, and whether a denial of such relief was justified. Indian Railway Establishment Manual & the Railway Pension Rules, 1993 - Appellant's husband, a temporary employee with the Eastern Indian Railways died in harness - Claim of the Appellant for family pension was denied on the ground that it is not admissible to the wife of an employee whose services were not regularized - Justifiability: Held:
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