Maharashtra govt. must seek out freedom fighters and kin to give pension, not make them file applications: Bombay HC
The Hindu
The court also noted that there cannot be a rigid time limit for making such applications.
If the pension scheme for freedom fighters and their dependents was introduced with a desire to help and honour such persons, then it ill behoves the Maharashtra government to reject claims due to lack of documents or late applications, the Bombay High Court has said.
A division bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Madhav Jamdar said that the State government should reach out to freedom fighters and their dependents and give them the benefits of the scheme, instead of making such people file applications.
The court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra government to start paying pension to the 90-year-old widow of a freedom fighter under the 'Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980' from October 2021.