Woman divorced after father's death can get his family pension, Tripura HC rules

The Tripura high court ordered the Agartala Municipal Corporation to grant family pension benefits. A divorced daughter was eligible for the pension from her divorce date. The court found the corporation's rejection of the claim was incorrect. Pension rules do not require divorce at the pensioner's death. Arrears and interest were directed to be paid within three months.

This story was originally reported by Times of India — Top Stories. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.