Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 229 · Decided 24 February 2022
Mukesh Kumar & Anr v. The Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 229 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 644
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1620/2022
- Decided
- 24 February 2022
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16(2)
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art.16(2) - Condition imposed by the Railway Board circular that compassionate appointment cannot be granted to children born from the second wife of a deceased employee - Held: Is not to grant compassionate appointment only on the ground of descent under Art.16(2) amounts to discrimination. Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: While compassionate appointment is an exception to the constitutional guarantee under Article 16, a policy for compassionate appointment must be
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)