Devan Ramachandran, J.

1. The sole question in this Appeal, filed assailing the judgment of a learned Judge of this Court in W.P(C)No.14071/2025, is whether the exclusion of divorced and widowed daughters of a freedom fighter, from the ambit of the ‘Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme’ 1980 (‘Scheme’, for short), is justified or tenable.

2. We do not have to labour much on this issue because, as rightly found by the learned Single Judge in paragraph 3 of the impugned judgment, the Hon'ble High Court of Punjab and Haryana has delivered judgment in Khajani Devi v. Union of India and Others [MANU/PH/1950/2016], allowing the claims raised before it by divorced/widowed daughters of freedom fighters; and that view has obtained the approval of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in SLP No.17706 of 2017.

3. The Hon'ble Supreme Court, while dismissing the above mentioned SLP, has concluded as under:

                  We have heard learned counsel for the parties. We are of the view that the impugned order adopts a progressive and socially constructive approach to give benefits to daughter who was divorced treating her at parity with the un-married daughter. We fully agree with this view.

4. In fact, it is conceded that, even though curative petitions and other such proceedings were pursued before the Hon'ble Supreme Court against this holding, they have also been dismissed.

5. It is thus ineluctable that the learned Single Judge has committed no error whatsoever; and consequently, we see no reason to interfere in this Appeal.

Resultantly, this Appeal is dismissed.