{"id":23772,"date":"1990-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1990-01-16T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-sita-devi-vs-the-secretary-haryana-state-on-17-january-1990"},"modified":"2019-03-16T22:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:23:35","slug":"smt-sita-devi-vs-the-secretary-haryana-state-on-17-january-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-sita-devi-vs-the-secretary-haryana-state-on-17-january-1990","title":{"rendered":"Smt. Sita Devi vs The Secretary, Haryana State &#8230; on 17 January, 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Smt. Sita Devi vs The Secretary, Haryana State &#8230; on 17 January, 1990<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1990) 98 PLR 81<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: M Agnihotri<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Agnihotri<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>  M.R. Agnihotri, J.  <\/p>\n<p>1. By this judgment, three Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 5290, 6949 and 6250 of 1989 are disposed of as common question of law is involved in the same; that is whether widow of an employee of Haryana State Electricity Board was entitled to family pension or not if the deceased had not completed one years regular service before the date of his death.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. Admittedly, in these three cases the deceased employees, to start with, joined service as casual\/work-charged employees and were later on regularised, as detailed below :&#8211; <\/p>\n<pre>\n   \n    C.W.P. 5290\/1989\nDeceased Sher Singh late husband       :    Joined service on 1.2.1954 as\nof Sita Devi Petitioner.                    Lineman on work-charge basis\n                                            and his services were regularised \n                                            on 12.10.1972, that is, before he \n                                            died on 11.6.1974. \n    C.W.P. 6249\/1989\nDeceased Rama Kant late bus-           :    Joined service on 1.3.1977 as \nband of Raj Bala Petitioner                 Tradesman Mate on work charge\n                                            basis and his services were regularised \n                                            on 17.4 1982 that is, before \n                                            he died on 21.2.1983. \n    C.W.P. 6250\/1989\nDeceased Virender Kumar late           :    Joined service on 28.7.1976 as \nhusband of Bimla Devi Peti-                 Mali cum-Chowkidar on work-\ntioner                                      charge basis and his services were\n                                            regularised on 24.3.1984 that is, \n                                            before be died on 19.5 1984. \n \n\n<\/pre>\n<p> 3. The stand of the respondent as projected in its written statement is that no doubt services of the deceased employees had been regularised before their death, yet they did not have five years&#8217; service to their credit at the time of their death. Therefore, according to the respondent, the claims to the family pension submitted by the petitioners have been rightly rejected by the respondent-Board.\n<\/p>\n<p> 4. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and having gone through the reply, I am of the considered view that the stand taken by the respondent is wholly untenable in law. The object of the Punjab Civil Services Rules, Volume II, relating to pensions etc., and the Family Pension Scheme, 1964. is to ensure that family pension was to be granted only to the widows or widowers of the employees if the deceased employee was in regular employment. Whether the Employer had ordered regularisation of the services of the deceased employee one day before the date of death or a decade back, the same is wholly irrelevant for the purposes of entitlement to family pension. Once an employee completes five years&#8217; continuous service, on regularisation the whole service become regularised and has to be counted for pension. Any other interpretation would defeat the purpose of grant of family pension.\n<\/p>\n<p> 5. Consequently, the writ petitions are allowed and the respondent Haryana State Electricity Board is directed to grant family pension to the petitioners considering them eligible for the grant of the same forthwith. No order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Smt. Sita Devi vs The Secretary, Haryana State &#8230; on 17 January, 1990 Equivalent citations: (1990) 98 PLR 81 Author: M Agnihotri Bench: M Agnihotri JUDGMENT M.R. Agnihotri, J. 1. 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