Widowed daughter entitled to freedom fighter pension: Delhi HC

Court relies on judgments passed previously by the Punjab and Haryana HC, and Calcutta HC

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that the widowed daughter of a late freedom fighter is entitled to the benefit of the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme (SSSPS) as a dependent. Justice V. Kameswar Rao relied on a judgment passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court as well as the Calcutta High Court on the subject, while granting relief to a woman, the sole dependent widow daughter of a freedom fighter. Ms. Kolli Indira Kumari had approached the High Court after her application to transfer her father’s freedom fighter pension, granted under the SSSPS, to her, after her father’s death, was declined by the government.