Nomination Dispute over GPF Resolved; Court Rules Wife and Mother of Deceased Must Share Fund as per Legal Norms: Supreme Court
In a significant judgment interpreting the General Provident Fund Rules, 1960, the Supreme Court of India resolved an emotional and prolonged dispute regarding who should receive the GPF savings of deceased Defence Accounts Department employee Bolla Mohan. On Friday, a bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh restored the earlier order directing that the GPF be equally divided between the wife and the mother of the deceased.…
