HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S.NARAYANA W.P.No. 1662 of 2008 Dated: 1st Day of February, 2008 Between: Bonala Ramulu .. Petitioner And Govt. of India, rep. by its Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Freedom Fighters Division, Loknayak Bhavan, New Delhi, and three others .. Respondents O R D E R: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus to declare the action of respondents 2 to 4 in not verifying and recommending the petitioner’s case to the 1st respondent for grant of freedom fighters’ pension under Swatantra Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980, as arbitrary and illegal. It is stated that the petitioner participated in the liberation movement of erstwhile Hyderabad State during the period of Nizam and number of cases were instituted against him during the period 1356 fasli to 1357 fasli and he was forced to go underground for more than six months. It is also stated that the 1st respondent passed a letter No.112/94/2004-FF(HC), dated 10.5.2005 rejecting the petitioner’s earlier application, which was submitted for sanction of freedom fighters’ pension, and advised him to apply with requisite acceptable evidence to reconsider his case. In pursuance of the letter, the petitioner again submitted his representation, dated 3.8.2007 to the 2nd respondent with all relevant documents. He also submitted a certificate issued by Sri Geddam Tirupathi Reddy, a prominent freedom fighter, which shows that arrest warrant was issued against the petitioner, but could not be served on him, and that he remained underground from 3.2.1948 to 20.9.1948, and another arrest warrant dated 29.11.1356 Fasli was issued by the Director General of District Police, HEH, the Nizam’s Government, but the 2nd respondent did not forward his application. Heard the learned counsel for both the parties and perused the material placed on record. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the 2nd and 3rd respondents are hereby directed to forward the application of the petitioner with due recommendations to the 1st respondent for grant of freedom fighters’ pension under Swatantra Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In terms of the above direction, this writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _______________ 01.02.2008 Note: Furnish copy in one week B/o bcj