Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 619 · Decided 5 October 2021
The State of Uttar Pradesh & ORS. v. Premlata
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 619 · [2021] 8 S.C.R. 597
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6003/2021
- Decided
- 5 October 2021
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
Dying-In-Harness Rules 1974 - r.5 - Compassionate appointment - Suitable post - Respondent's husband, a Class-IV government servant died while serving as Messenger in Police Radio Department - She sought appointment on compassionate ground in a Class-III post Filed writ petition which was dismissed by Single Judge of High Court - Appeal, allowed by Division Bench - Held: Initially the respondent applied for compassionate appointment on the post of Assistant Operator in the Department - It was rightly not accepted on the ground that
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