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Eligibility

Dependent, married daughters covered by dying in harness rule: HC

The Times of India, Dec 05 2015

Rajesh Kumar Pandey

If dependent, married girls eligible for jobs  The Allahabad high court ruled that married daughters are also entitled to jobs under the dyingin-harness rule. According to the rule, in case a government employee dies during service, his or her dependants will be given a job.

Allowing a writ petition filed by Vimla Srivastava of Azamgarh, a division bench of Chief Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud and justice Yashwant Varma held that the exclusion of married daughters from the ambit of `family' of UP Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules, 1974 is illegal and unconstitutional.

“Excluding daughter on the ground of marriage will violate the principles laid down under Article 16 of the Constitution (equality of opportunity in the matters of public employment),“ the court said, adding that no ci tizen can be discriminated on the grounds of gender.

The HC said if a son con tinues to be a son before and after marriage, the daughter also remains the same before and after marriage. There fore, it was not proper to deny equal benefits to daughters.

The court directed the state authorities to consider the claims of married daughters for compassionate appoint ments just like that of unmarried and divorced daughters.

The petitioner had moved the court challenging the validity of a clause in the UP Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules. Her father, an employee in the revenue department in Azamgarh, had died while on duty.

The Azamgarh district magistrate had rejected the petitioner's claim for appointment.

‘Illegitimate’ son entitled to compassionate job appointment/ HC:

March 14, 2022: The Times of India

Raipur: The Chhattisgarh HC has held that an ‘illegitimate’ son is also entitled to be considered for compassionate job appointment following the death of the father.

The HC benchallowed a petition filed by Piyush Kumar Anchal, and directed the Chhattisgarh State Warehousing Corporation to consider his application for compassionate appointment. Anchal had moved the court after the corporation rejected his application on the ground that he had not filed avalid succession certificate.


According to the petition, junior assistant Mohan Lal Anchal worked at a Pratappur branchs of the warehousing corporation and died due to Covid. Piyush moved HC, stating that he was the son of Mohan’s second wife and hence applied for compassionate appointment. Suresh Kumar Anchal, the son of Mohan’s first wife, had also claimed compassionate appointment. Piyush submitted in his petition that his mother’s name was recorded in the nomination form submitted by his father. 
 The HC said a policy “cannot discriminate against a person only on the ground of descent by classifying children of the deceased employee as legitimate and illegitimate and recognizing only the right of legitimate descendant”. TNN

The legal position

Compassionate ground no guarantee for job: HC

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New Delhi: The Delhi high court has held a person cannot claim appointment on compassionate grounds as a matter of right. The court said that appointment has to be given in cases of financial hardship.

The court’s remarks came on a petition filed by Bimla Devi against the decision of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) that has declined to appoint her younger son on compassionate grounds after the death of her husband who was employed as an assistant in the President’s secretariat.

‘‘Compassionate appointment is not to be given when there is no financial hardship. Compassionate appointment, it is well settled, is not a source of a recruitment nor it can be claimed as a matter of right,’’ said the bench of Justice Anil Kumar and Justice Mool Chand Garg said.

Opposing the plea of Bimla Devi, the secretariat had said she had already received Rs 7,41,673 as retirement benefits and that her daughter-in-law was employed. Interpreting the provisions of compassionate appointment under the law, the court said the underlying object of such scheme is to prevent the family of a government servant from financial destitution.