WRIT - A No. 6770 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:37388-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6770 of 2025 Petitioner :- Smariti Srivastava Respondent :- Union Of India Thru. Secy. Railway Rail Bhawan, Ministry Of Railways New Delhi And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Atul Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Surya Bhan Pandey, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India assisted by Sri Varun Pandey learned counsel appearing for Union of India. The present writ petition has questioned the legality of the judgement rendered by Central Administrative Tribunal, Lucknow Bench, Lucknow in Original Application No.89 of 2023 decided on 08.11.2024. The rule of eligibility for family pension has been extracted in paragraph no.6.1 of the impugned judgement which reads as under-: 6.1 A perusal of office memorandum (OM) dated 19.07.2017 issued by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (Annexure CR-1 to the counter affidavit) inter alia reveals the following provision relevant to the case at hand: “Sub: Eligibility of divorced daughter for grant of family pension-clarification