NEW DELHI, Dec 3: The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on the Centre for filing an appeal against an order of the Armed Forces Tribunal, which granted a liberalised pension to the widow of a soldier who died during a counter-terrorism patrol in Jammu and Kashmir.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said the widow should not have been dragged to court.
“In our view, in a case like this, the respondent ought not to have been dragged to this court, and the decision making authority of the appellants ought to have been sympathetic to the widow of a deceased soldier who died in harness. Therefore, we propose to impose costs quantified as Rs 50,000, which will be payable to the respondent,” the bench held.
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