Ranjanabai Maruti Agaskhande v. The State Of Maharashtra And Others

4494.17wp etc (1)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

BENCH AT AURANGABAD 905 WRIT PETITION NO. 4494 OF 2017 PUSHPAVATI MOHINIRAJ JOSHI

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 6412 OF 2017 YESHODABAI VITHOBA PATIL

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 10016 OF 2017 SMT. RANJANABAI MARUTI AGASKHANDE

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS ....

Mr S. K. Mathpati, Advocate for Petitioners in all Petitions Mr S. R. Yadav Lonikar, A.G.P. for Respondents/State in all Petitions Mr S. T. Shelke, Advocate for Respondent Nos.4 and 5 in Writ Petition No.4494/2017 CORAM : RAVINDRA V. GHUGE AND Y. G. KHOBRAGADE, JJ.

DATE : 30th July, 2024 PER COURT:

1.

The common factors in all these matters are as under :-

4494.17wp etc (2) (a) All these Petitioners are admittedly second wives of the deceased employees.

(b) The deceased employees have children from the first wife, as well as from the second wife.

(c) All the children born out of relationship with the second wives, are adults and married and, therefore, would not be entitled for family pension.

2.

The Full Bench of this Court, to which, one of us is a party (Ravindra V. Ghuge, J.), has delivered a judgment on 31/01/2019 in Writ Petition No.9933/2016 (Kamalbai W/o Venkatrao Nipanikar Vs. State of Maharashtra and others, [2019 (3) Mh.L.J. 921] and connected Petitions, which covers this issue.

3.

In view of the above, all these Writ Petitions are dismissed.

(Y. G. KHOBRAGADE, J.) (RAVINDRA V. GHUGE, J.) sjk