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2026 DAILYLAW 26821 (CAL)

SHARMISTA SAHA DAS v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

WPA/13604/2026 · 2026-07-08

Reetobroto Kumar Mitra

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08.07.2026 4 sdas WPA 13604 of 2026 Sharmista Saha Das Vs. Union of India & Ors. Mr. Kallol Basu Mr. Suman Banerjee Mr. Atreya Chakraborty .….. for the petitioner Mr. Amitava Nayak Mr. Sushil Kumar Mishra ……for the UOI 1. Let affidavit-of-service, as filed in Court, be kept on record. 2. The petitioner is the disabled daughter of a former employee of National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (Divyangjan), Kolkata. 3. The petitioner suffers from 100% blindness in both of her eyes. This disability of the petitioner entitles her under the Office Memorandum dated January 16, 2013, Explanation 1 (new), to get the pension payable to the family of a former employee. 4. The petitioner applied for such pension as far back as in 2025. The pension, though not refused, was not paid as the authorities sought for certain documents. The documents were furnished by the petitioner. The authorities now seek the documents as specified in Explanation 3 as under : 2 5. (i) he or she has not started earning his or her livelihood and (ii) he or she has not yet married or remarried. 6. The petitioner, in order to expedite the process, will furnish the documents along with her disability certificate once again to the respondent no. 3. 7. Upon receipt of such documents the respondent no. 3 will proceed to deal with the matter in accordance with Office Memorandum dated January 16, 2013, issued by the Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions, Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of such documents. 8. Upon consideration, the Pension Payment Order (PPO) will be issued by the respondent authorities to enable the petitioner to get pension at the earliest. 9. Needless to mention the pension will accrue from the date of death of the former employee. 10. With the aforestated directions, the writ petition is disposed of. 11. There will be no order as to costs. 12. Urgent photostat certified copy of the order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon usual undertakings. (Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, J.)