Only a freedom fighter or his wife can nominate a relative for a government job and the nomination will not be considered after their death, the Bombay High Court has ruled.
Only a freedom fighter or his wife can nominate a relative for a government job and the nomination will not be considered after their death, the Bombay High Court has ruled.
“The aim behind the scheme of granting the right to the widow of a freedom fighter to nominate a relative for appointment in government service is that the nominee would look after her in old age,” said the high court.
“But, if the wife of the freedom fighter is not alive, then the issue of looking after her does not arise,” said the court while dismissing the plea made by Sachin Hundekari, 28, of Solapur.
Hundekari claimed his grandfather had participated in the national freedom struggle and was honoured under the Swantatrya Sainik Samman Patra scheme launched by the state government.
After his grandfather’s death, the petitioner’s grandmother nominated him for employment in government service. However, he was informed that his request has been disallowed by an order dated June 7, 2005.
The petitioner moved the high court to set aside the government order stating that the “approach of the respondents is improper and hyper technical.”
The state government opposed the plea stating that Hundekari’s grandmother had died on March 6, 2005, and so his nomination was rejected.
The division bench of Justice SA Bobde and Justice VK Tahilramani observed: “When the freedom fighter and his wife are not alive, there is no question of looking after them. And in such a case, after the freedom fighter’s widow dies, the nomination she had made does not stand.”
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