HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA W.P.NO.154 OF 2007 Dt.15.12.2010 Between: Gurram Nagaiah and others ..Petitioners And Government of India rep. by its Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi. ..Respondent HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA W.P.NO.154 OF 2007 ORDER: All the petitioners claim that they took part in freedom struggle and are entitled for Samman pension under ‘Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980’. All the petitioners have submitted applications before the Government of India, but the Samman pension has not been released to them so far. Learned Standing Counsel for Union of India submits that as long as the applications of the petitioners are not processed and forwarded to the Central Government by the State Government, the applications filed by the petitioners cannot be considered. He also submits that there is a delay in submitting the applications for grant of pension. In the present case, all the petitioners are more than 75 years age and it would be very unfair to ask them to submit fresh applications for grant of Samman pension under the said Scheme. In this view of the matter, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction that the Union of India shall forward applications of the petitioners to the State Government without raising any objection on delay in filing the applications, within a period of one month from today. On receipt of the applications from the Union of India, the State Government shall process the applications and submit its recommendations back to the Union of India within a period of two months thereafter. On receipt of the recommendations made by the State Government, the Union of India shall grant/reject applications filed by each of the petitioners within a further period of three months. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No order as to costs. ______________________ ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA, J. 15.12.2010 kpr