WRIT - A No. 16347 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 16347 of 2025 Anita Devi Yadav .....Petitioner(s) Versus The Central Administrative Tribunal Branch at Allahabad and 3 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Amar Nath Pandey Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Seema Agarwal (S.C.), Pramod Kumar Singh Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner aggrieved of the order dated 10.09.2025 passed in Original Application ('OA') No. 812 of 2021 whereby the OA, filed by the petitioner, has been dismissed. 2. The OA was filed seeking a direction to the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for the old pension scheme and give benefit being Machinist in Ordinance Factory, Kanpur. 3. Submissions were made that petitioner was appointed on compassionate ground with the respondents after the death of her father vide appointment letter dated 27.10.2004. It was submitted that the pension department issued a Memorandum under Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 on 17.02.2020 providing that employees, whose selection for appointment was finalized before 01.01.2004, ca