Is this India? Former army man's wife didn't get pension for 70 years, fought, gets justice now
81-year-old Paruli Devi, a resident of Linthura village in Uttarakhand, has received justice after 70 years, she will now get her husband's pension.
Paruli Devi's husband Gagan Singh died in an accident while in service in 1952 but was not getting a family pension.
According to the Times of India, after two months of marriage, the soldier had committed suicide. She has been fighting in the army and not receiving a pension due to unnatural death.
In 1977, a woman challenged in the Allahabad High Court that only the widows whose spouse has been died in war could get the pension. In 1985 the judge ruled in her favor.
On this basis, the Chief Controller of Defense Services approved his pension from September 1977 according to which Pauli Devi will get a total of 20 lakh rupees.