Section 7 of Karnataka State Civil Services Act, 1973

7. Provisions relating to payments to heirs of deceased allottees. - Where consequent upon a review of promotions under section 4, it is found that any allottee who before an order under sub-section (1), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (8) of section 4 is made, or before the expiry of the period of officiation in a promoted post or office has while in service or after retirement died, would have been eligible for promotion to the next higher class or grade or service on any day under the said section if the final seniority list had been published on the first day of November 1956, his pension and death-cum-retirement gratuity shall be revised, with reference to the pay and allowances he would have drawn if he had been promoted to the next higher class or grade of service on the date on which he was found eligible for such promotion with reference to his rank in the final seniority list and the relevant recruitment rules and as if he had satisfactorily completed the period of officiation in the said class or grade of service, and the excess amount payable on such revision of pension, and death-cum-retirement gratuity shall be paid to the heirs of the said deceased allottee.