Ranjit S/O Ambadas Hiwale and Another v. Kuwarlal S/O Hiralal Wasnik and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
WRIT PETITION NO. 2366 OF 2025, Bombay High Court Nagpur Bench, decision dated July 17, 2025; coram Nitin W. Sambre and Sachin S. Deshmukh. Challenge to Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal order dated 07/10/2024 directing payment of family pension and terminal benefits to respondent No.1 (Kuwarlal S/o Hiralal Wasnik), recognised as Class-I heir; Tribunal's jurisdiction upheld; petitioners claiming to be nephews of Smt Alka Wasnik had not contested merits before the Tribunal; writ jurisdiction interference declined; petition dismissed without costs.
What did the court decide?
The petitioners' contention that the Tribunal ought not to have gone into the issue and that its order was without jurisdiction was not substantiated by any legal foundation, since respondent No.1 admittedly falls within the category of Class-I heir. ¶21