Widow’s Family Pension Must Be Paid from the Date of Her Husband’s Death: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court decided the family pension claim of Maya Banerjee, widow of late K.M. Banerjee, a Railway employee who died in service on 12.11.2000. The High Court had allowed family pension only from 2014, when the appellant first approached the Central Administrative Tribunal. The Supreme Court held that this restriction was unjust because the Railways should have processed the family pension when it became due after the employee’s death.…