Union Of India vs Thankamma Kesavan Illikkalveli on 25 November, 2014
In Union of India v. Elizabeth
Sipri (WA No.1858/2013), direction was given by the Division
Bench to grant pension from the date of application. All the cases
referred above related to the grant of pension for jail suffering on
conviction or in cases of underground suffering and based on
either primary evidence or secondary evidence, which apparently
cannot be applied to the facts of the present case, in which
pension is claimed by the widow of a martyr. In such instances,
the proof required are the relevant documents from official
records and newspapers of the relevant time, which are
considered as evidence. Appellants have produced the salient
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features of the Scheme. Clause 2.1 relates to eligibility of
dependents of martyrs, which reads as under;