IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.8595 of 2002 LALA SINGH Versus THE UNION OF INDIA & ORS ----------- 3 23.01.2009 Heard Mr. P.N. Shahi, learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the Union of India and the State of Bihar. The scheme of freedom fighters pension envisages payment of pension to the pension holder and after the death on his or her dependent. In this case the wife of the petitioner was of the pension holder and she had died in the year 1983. It has come on record that not only the petitioner at that point of time was working as a teacher but had also his independent income. That apart the authorities have gone into this aspect of the matter and have found that the petitioner was not dependent on the income of his wife. If that be so, there would be hardly anything to take a different view. There is actually nothing on record to show that the petitioner was dependent on the income of his wife. The wife had died in the year 1983 and the petitioner has survived for a period of 26 years even without pension which would only go to show that he has adequate means to survive and such persons are not entitled for payment of pension under Freedom Fighter Pension Scheme. That being so, this writ application is wholly misconceived and is hereby dismissed. Bibhash (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)