Army Officer’s Wife Gets Special Pension 30 Years After Death of Husband

The widow was initially given an ordinary family pension instead of a special family pension as the ministry did not consider her husband's death to be related to military service. However, the AFT Chandigarh passed the order for the special family pension while hearing an application filed by Anuradha Saini, the widow of late Major Sushil Kumar Saini, a resident of Hoshiarpur. She stated in her plea before the AFT that her husband was suffering from primary hypertension aggravated by his service, and he should not have been deployed in the operational area and made to live in a bunker. The court of enquiry conducted in this matter found that the cause of his death was attributable to military service. The AFT observed that the documents demonstrated that Major Saini imparted appropriate instructions as to how the situation was to be handled and the disposal of the Bangladeshi nationals so apprehended.