IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No :32616 of 2010 Between: 1.Pola Nagaiah, S/o Venkaiah, H.No.6-2-64/2, Khammam and another. . .Petitioner And 1.The Government of India, represented by its Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Aﬀairs, Freedom Fighters Division, Loknayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi and another. .. Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No. 32616 of 2010 ORDER: Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners, learned Counsel representing respondent No.1 and learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for respondent No.2. 2. The grievance of the petitioners ventilated in this writ petition is that they are entitled to the beneﬁt of Swatantra Sainik Samman Pension Scheme-1980, which provides ﬁnancial assistance to the freedom ﬁghters. Petitioners’ state that they have made requisite claims with all the documents as early as on 13.07.2005, but there is no response from either of the respondents. It is stated that the action of the respondents in not considering the claims of the petitioners for grant of pension is causing hardship to them as they were aged 85 and 94 years respectively on the date of ﬁling of the present writ petition. 3. Learned Standing Counsel appearing for the 1st respondent ﬁled a counter-aﬃdavit stating that in view of large-scale complaints received in the matter of grant of pension, vigilance enquiries were ordered and re- veriﬁcation is undertaken with respect to sanction of pension in four districts i.e., Karimnagar, Khammam, Nalgonda and Warangal. It is accepted that the cases of the petitioners are recommended cases and the State Government had no oﬃcial records to verify the claims. The veriﬁcation reports were based on the personal knowledge certiﬁcates given by other freedom ﬁghters. In the absence of a valid recommendation slip of Hyderabad Special Screening Committee, the case of the petitioners could not be finalized. 4. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the 2nd respondent has placed before this Court a copy of the memo dated 17.11.2011 issued by the Principal Secretary to Government, wherein the District Collector, Khammam is requested to furnish re-veriﬁcation report in respect of the petitioners herein for taking necessary action and to forward the same to the Government of India, New Delhi. It is represented by the learned Government Pleader for Revenue that requisite process of re-veriﬁcation and sending the report to the Central Government is being pursued. 5. Taking note of the aforesaid statement, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the Writ Petition directing the 2nd respondent to submit the re-veriﬁcation report to the Central Government within thirty days from today and on receipt of such report the Central Government shall consider the same and pass appropriate orders thereon within a period of two months thereafter. This Court would hope and trust that keeping in view the age of the petitioners, expeditious action will be taken by the respondents within two months period as envisaged hereinabove. 6. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. No order as to costs. ___________________________________ JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR 23rd November 2011 Note: Furnish C.C. within one week. (Bo) Gsn.