The Kerala High Court on December 21 (Thursday) criticised the State government for not paying the arrears of widow pension due to 78-year-old Mariyakuty even as the government is able to garner resources to pay for various other purposes.
Justice Devan Ramachandran observed that on the one side, the Kerala Government was able to garner resources and spend money on various other things, while on the other, there is a person who says she has nothing else to live on.
The court also asked whether the government had stopped any festivities on account of the financial crisis faced by it. The court said the government must certainly prioritise the requirement of money and must give good thought to it because a senior citizen such as the petitioner is certainly a very important person (VIP) whose requirement cannot be disregarded, particularly when the season of Christmas has dawned.
