New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre to consider a retired government employee’s plea to include the names of his live-in partner of over 40 years and their children in the Pension Payment Order for family pension and healthcare facilities.
A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Madhu Jain held that the petitioner government employee never concealed his relationship, and treating his efforts to include the names of his partner and children as his family as “grave misconduct” to deny post-retirement benefits was erroneous.
The bench therefore set aside a 2018 order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) upholding the decision of the authorities to withhold 50 per cent of monthly pensionary and gratuity benefits be given to the personnel who retired in 2012.
