Government amends 50-year-old rule that suspended pension in case of ‘most dishonest’ within the Fa

New Delhi: After nearly 50 years, the government implemented a new change stating that payment of family pension will not be suspended, where a person eligible to receive family pension will be charged for murder of a government employee or in such commission. charged with the offense of abetment. Crime.

The 1972 rule was invoked in a grisly case of murder by his wife or kin within the family of a Government pensioner, who were entitled to ‘Family Pension’ after the pensioner’s death. Many saw such ‘most dishonest’ as ‘the killing of a goose that lays a golden egg’.

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In such cases, the family pension was “suspended” by the government until the criminal case was decided in some way, as Money Control reports. If the accused is acquitted, the family pension is resumed along with the arrears. If the accused is convicted, the pension is also resumed to the next eligible family member along with the arrears. However, the cases pending in the Indian courts proved difficult for the rest of the family.

What do the new rules say?

On June 16, the government changed this rule and said that in such cases the family pension would not be suspended, but would be given immediately to the next eligible family member (other than the accused), be it a child or a parent. . dead. “The provisions have been reviewed in consultation with the Department of Legal Affairs,” the new order said.

As per the new orders, if the accused is subsequently acquitted of the charge of murder, family pension will become payable from the date of his acquittal and family pension to other family member will be stopped from that date.

“If the spouse of the Government servant is accused of an offence, and the other eligible member is a minor child of the deceased Government servant, the family pension shall be payable to such minor child through a duly appointed guardian, and the parent of the minor child (who has been charged with the offence) shall not act as guardian for the purpose of refund of family pension,” the order further says, as an abundant caution.