do not insist on production of marriage certificate:HC

: Madras High Court today ruled that officials should not insist on production of marriage certificate from Tahsildhar, registrar or District court to sanction family pension when a widow produces heir and birth certificates of her daughter, where her name is mentioned as mother and that of the retired employee as father.
Allowing a petition by one G Pushpam, who married a retired junior electricity board engineer after the death of his first wife, Justice D Hariparanthaman said in the heir certificate issued by the Tahsildhar, the petitioner had been mentioned as his 'second wife'.
Besides the birth certificate issued by a hospital at Tiruchirapalli too had mentioned that the petitioner is the mother of the minor girl Akilandeswari and the father is the retired employee A Ganesan.

The legal heirship certificate also showed that Karthikeyan was the son by his late wife.
Karthikeyan had filed an affidavit that he had no objection to give family pension to his step mother, who is also his mother's sister, who had married his father two years after his mother died.
The Village Administrative Officer also had given a certificate to show that Pushpam is the second wife of the employee. The Marriage between the petitioner and Ganesan took place after the death of the first wife, the judge noted.
"The officials are not justified in refusing the family pension to the petitioner and minor daughter as per pension rules. The judge said directing to give the pension in eight weeks.