According to them, in the prime of youth the petitioners had been motivated by the call of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation and leaders like the late Pt.
They maintained that the Arya Samaj movement has been equated with the freedom struggle and the benefit of the pension scheme is admissible to those who had participated in the movement as Arya Samajists.
In the case of most of them the term of imprisonment was around two years.
75 Of 1991.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition c No.
Ramaswamy, Attorney General, A.K. Srivastava and Ms. Subhashini N.P. for the Respondents.
Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and others and had given up their home and hearth and had joined the agitation within the Nizams State and suffered the companysequences.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RANGANATH MISRA, CJ.
This is an application under Arti cle 32 of the Constitution by 55 persons both men and women claiming the benefit of the scheme of pension for Freedom Fighters.
It is the companymon companytention of the petitioners that they had joined the Arya Samaj movement in the late 1930s within the erstwhile Nizams State of Hyderabad and each of them had been companyvicted under different provisions of the crimi nal law then prevailing within the Nizams State and sen tenced to various terms of imprisonment.
