WRIT - A No. 957 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:4785-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 957 of 2025 Petitioner :- Kamini Agarwal Respondent :- Union Of India Thru. The Secy. Ministry Of Defence And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Priyanka Singh,Abhay Pratap Singh,Devang Singh Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Ms. Priyanka Singh, learned counsel for petitioner and Shri S.B. Pandey, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India assisted by Shri Dev Rishi Pandey, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Union of India and learned Standing Counsel for the respondent. 2. This writ petition filed by the petitioner has questioned the legality of the judgment and order rendered by the Central Administrative Tribunal in OA No.332/00093/2021 on 05.01.2024, whereby the Tribunal has dismissed the OA claiming the benefit of family pension on the ground of being the dependent of the pensioner late Jagdish Prasad Singhal, who died on 26.12.2002 leaving behind his widow upon whom the right of family pension devolved up to 02.02.2009 when she also died. 3. The right of family pension as a dependent has been claimed in the backdrop of the