Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 597 · Decided 9 September 2013
State of Maharashtra & ORS. v. Namdeo ETC. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 597 · [2013] 14 S.C.R. 245
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7899/2013
- Decided
- 9 September 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
A B Freedom Fighters Pension Scheme - Claim for freedom fighter's pension - Under particular scheme - The scheme providing for furnishing certain documents to prove the claim C - The claims were based on affidavits and no other material was furnished - Rejection of claim by State on the ground of documents - Writ petition by the claimants -High Court directed grant of the pension - Held: When the Scheme itself specifies requirement of D furnishing certain documents, normally those documents should be produced to prove the claim - However, this requirement can be relaxed, if there is
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