4. It is well settled that ignorance of law is no excuse, but as argued by the learned Senior Counsel that there are illiterate people having no access to all sorts of information either beneficial or otherwise, the said presumption is explainable inasmuch as when an employee is in Government service or in the service of a Corporation, etc. his family knows the source of earning and the source of employment. The existence and locus of the office of employment is not unknown as the dependents immediately get information with regard to terminal benefits and other pecuniary benefits that flow in the shape of family pension or other residual benefits, the disbursement whereof takes from the office where the deceased employee was employed. Thus, the plea of total illiteracy or ignorance of benefits available or about their doubts can be cast aside by seeking simple information from the office of employment. This is not a task like climbing Mt. Everest to find out the benefits to which a dependent of the deceased employee is entitled to. Thus, such information is not buried so deep so as to uncover the ignorance of even a widow or a dependent of a family who can gather such information and for which the period of three years can be reasonably said to be sufficient. In today's modern world, with various forms of communications and websites with all information available through internet services even in the remotest corners of the world, the exercise of getting information is not in a fathomless pit, but is almost available on the press of a few sensors.'' ''
