TOI community guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThese are not matters where the family or the widow should be expected to go to the court to obtain relief,\u201d SC said.AG R Venkataramani said Rs 14.28 lakh had been paid to the widow and pension will be processed as per HC order. Arrears, calculated at Rs 4.12 lakh, had also been released. SC said a consolidated amount of Rs 10 lakh be paid to her for the period between Singh\u2019s death and HC order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are not matters where the family or the widow should be expected to go to the court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[390,84,4176,4903,308,4501,4901,243481,4174,4175,243480,243477,243478,243479,4902,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-mohan-singh-widow-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-sc-order-on-pension","tag-shaurya-chakra-award","tag-special-family-pension","tag-supreme-court-intervention","tag-today-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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These are not matters where the family or the widow should be expected to go to the court to obtain relief, Supreme Court said NEW DELHI: Official apathy sometimes doesn\u2019t spare even the families of those who lay down their lives for the country. A case in point is the decades-long struggle of the widow of \u2018Shaurya Chakra\u2019 awardee Mohan Singh, who had to wait for 26 years to get her rightful Special Family Pension \u2014 that too only after the Supreme Court\u2019s intervention.Singh, an overseer with General Reserves Engineering Force, was in charge of construction of a key border road. On July 10, 2000, when a boulder from a hilltop rolled down with debris, he helped move workers from the site but could not get out of its way himself and was killed. The Centre posthumously conferred on him in 2001 the \u2018Shaurya Chakra\u2019 \u2014 the third-highest peacetime gallantry award.However, his widow received relief under Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act and not the Special Family Pension under the CCS (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, to which she was entitled. It was rejected on the ground that since payment under Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act had been made, no liberalised pensionary award was due to the deceased\u2019s kin, as per CCS (Pension) rules.She moved Punjab and Haryana HC, which held she was entitled to extraordinary pension but restricted payment of arrears from date of the filing of petition, denying relief from the date of death of her husband. When the matter reached the SC, a bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and Arun Palli said the Centre had erred and should have categorised her case under the correct category \u2018C\u2019 of CCS Pension Rules and extended the benefit soon after Singh\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n