NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that the wife and parents have equal rights over the General Provident Fund (GPF) of a deceased government employee. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotishwar Singh pointed out that the nomination of parents becomes invalid with marriage. In case of marriage, the nomination for parents will not stand. The amount should be distributed equally to the wife and parents of the deceased employee.

The petitioner wife had received all service benefits except GPF when her husband, an employee of the Defence Accounts Department, died in 2021. The GPF fund was denied because the husband had nominated his mother before marriage. The wife's case against this was upheld by the Central Administrative Tribunal. The tribunal found that the nomination of the mot

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