'Adultery allegations won't block pension rights'

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has held that merely levelling allegations of adultery against a woman cannot disentitle her from receiving her deceased husband's family pension under the Maharashtra Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1982 (MCSR).

- Urvi Mahajani

A bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Yanshivraj Khobragade dismissed a plea by the brother and mother of a deceased associate professor, who sought pension benefits on the ground that the man had accused his wife of adultery and was living separately from her.