WRIT - A No. 5545 of 2021 at Allahabad

1 AFR Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:121667 Court No. - 52 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 5545 of 2021 Petitioner :- Urmila Singh Respondent :- State Of U P And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Jitendra Prasad,Niraj Kumar Singh,Rajesh Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Jay Ram Pandey Hon'ble Mrs. Manju Rani Chauhan,J. 1. The petitioner has preferred this writ petition challenging an order dated 21.09.2020 passed by respondent no. 3 – Finance and Accounts Officer, Basic Education, Mirzapur, vide which the claim of the petitioner for payment of family pension has been rejected. 2. Brief facts of the case are that the petitioner’s husband was appointed as an Assistant Teacher in a Basic School run by Basic Shiksha Parishad and was superannuated on 31.03.2016, after which he was getting pension. He passed away on 29.11.2019, therefore, his wife (petitioner herein) became entitled for family pension. The petitioner (wife) moved an application requesting for sanction of family pension. However, her claim of family pension been rejected vide order impugned dated 21.09.2020 on the ground that in the application requesting for payment of pension as moved by the petitioner’s husband, in