12.wp.3941.09 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.3941 OF 2009 Tikaram Shewaram Ahuja. ..Petitioner. Versus Union of India and 2 others. ..Respondents. ... Mr.Ramesh Ramamurthy, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.A.I. Patel, A.G.P., for the State. Mr.S.B. Shettye, Advocate with Milind Deshmukh, Advocate for the respondent. ... CORAM : BILAL NAZKI AND SMT. V.K.TAHILRAMANI,JJ. DATE : 22nd JUNE, 2009. P.C. :- 1. The present petitioner is litigating for a long time and seeks benefits of the scheme as he claims that he was a freedom fighter. It appears that even on his own showing he would have been 9 years of age in 1942, when he claims that he was imprisoned. We have perused the returns filed. It is stated that certain orders have been passed by the Court and in terms of the order passed by the Aurangabad Bench, the Government has considered the matter and communicated to the Collector Thane that the State Government has rejected the application of the petitioner for grant of pension and the Collector was informed to inform the applicant. It appears that the petitioner claims that he was forced to give up his education and was removed from the institution as he was participating in freedom movement. A personal affidavit of a person 12.wp.3941.09 2 claiming to be the Principal of a school in Sindh, which is now part of Pakistan, gave a certificate that he knew the petitioner and he was a student and he was participating in freedom movement. Obviously, such an certificate could not be believed and was not conclusive particularly in view of the fact that when the petitioner claims to have participated in freedom movement, he was aged 9 years. He had also claimed that he was in prison for 35 days and was also absconding. This was also not substantiated by any record. For these reasons and for the reasons given by the Government in its order, we find no fault in the impugned order. Writ Petition is misconceived and is dismissed as such. [BILAL NAZKI,J.] [SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.]