IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No 8999 of 2009 Dewanti Devi @ Dewanti Singh, wife of AC Y K Singh, resident of Mohalla – Sushila Niketan, Mission Road Pakri, P S – Nawada, District – Bhojpur - Petitioner Versus 1 The Union of India through Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi 2 AOC, AFRO (P & W WINGS), Subroto Park, New Delhi 3 Honorary Secretary AFWWA (Central) Air Head Quarters (Vayzi Bhawan), New Delhi 4 Principal Controller of Defence Account (Pension), Allahabad, UP - Respondents ----------- 2 31.07.2009 Heard the Assistant Solicitor General. The petitioner claims to be the widow of one Y K Singh who was an AC in the Indian Air Force and while posted at Chandigarh died in a road accident on 06th August, 1993. This writ application has been filed by her claiming special family pension. From the pleadings in the writ petition, it is apparent that she had been getting ordinary family pension till her remarriage which disqualified her from any other family pension. Her claim was for special family pension and the same seem to have been rejected by the Air Force authorities by their communication dated 07th April, 2008 (Annexure-2) wherein it was stated that liberalised (special) family pension is granted next of kin of a deceased in service if death is caused due to any of the reasons as mentioned therein. Surely, in the case of petitioner, none of those reasons were satisfied. On the face of it, she was not entitled to liberalised family pension (special family pension). That being so, I do not find any reason to interfere in this matter. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh) 2