IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 1649 OF 2010 Between: Chirra Uppalamma and another ..... PETITIONER AND The Union of India, rep. by its Deputy Secretary, Ministry Home Affairs, Khan Market, New Delhi and others. .....RESPONDENT(S) HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA W.P.No. 1649 of 2010 ORDER: According to the petitioners, their husbands by name late Lingaiah and late Ailaiah, respectively, participated in the Liberation Movement in the year 1947-48 of Hyderabad State against the Nizam Government. In view of Central Freedom Fighters’ Pension under Swathantra Sainic Samman Pension Scheme, 1980 (for short ‘the scheme, 1980), introduced by the Government of India, the petitioners’ husbands, when they were alive, made applications along with necessary documents in the year 1982 requesting the respondent-authorities to provide them the required pension. After verification of the documents and being satisfied that the petitioners’ husbands participated in the freedom struggle, the Tahsildar, Elkathurthy Mandal, by his proceedings dated 29-12-1992, confirmed it and recommended their cases to the 3rd respondent-District Collector, Karimnagar District, who in-turn, recommended their case to the 2nd respondent-Secretary, Department of Revenue, Government of A.P., Hyderabad, for grant of pension under the Scheme, 1980. Thereafter, the petitioners’ husbands died and when the petitioners approached the respondent-authorities and gave representations/legal notices, but the respondent-authorities have not passed any orders so far. Hence, they approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and Smt. K.Rajitha, learned standing counsel for the Central Government. 3. During the course of arguments, the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Standing counsel for Central Government have submitted that in similar matters, this Court directed the respondents to complete the verification within two months and forward the same to the authorities concerned. In the light of the same and taking into consideration the fact that the Tahsildar, Elkathurthy Mandal, has already submitted the verification report of the husbands of the petitioners to the 3rd respondent on 29-12-1992 and who in-turn forwarded their cases to the 2nd respondent recommending for grant of pension to the petitioners, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to the respondents. 4. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to consider the case of the petitioners within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and pay the required pension to which the petitioners’ husbands are entitled at the earliest. The said pension shall be paid with retrospective effect i.e. from the date of representation made in the year 1982. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________ 1st February 2010 kvr