Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 419 · Decided 28 August 2000
Sanjay Kumar v. The State of Bihar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 419 · [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 710
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 12876/2000
- Decided
- 28 August 2000
- Bench
- M. JAGANNADHA RAO, DORAISWAMY RAJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law-Compassionate appointments-Object of-Compassion- ate appointment is intended to enable the family of the deceased employee to tide over sudden crisis resulting due to death of the bread earner who had left c the family in penury and without any means of livelihood-Death of employee the date of application son being minor not eligible for appointment-Rejection of request for appointment-Writ-Dismissal by High Court-Appeal before Supreme Court-Held, there cannot be reserva- D tion of a vacancy till such time as the applicant becomes a major after a number of years,
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