Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 277 · Decided 6 April 2011
Union of India and ANR. v. B. Kishore
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 277 · [2011] 5 S.C.R. 719
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1045/2006
- Decided
- 6 April 2011
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
A B Service Law - Appointment - Compassionate appointment - Entitlement to - Respondent's wife died while she was in service - Respondent obtained death-cum- C terminal benefits of his wife from her department - Subsequently he made application for compassionate appointment - Department rejected not considered to be in 'indigent circumstances' - Decision upheld by Tribunal - D Respondent filed writ petition - High Court allowed the writ petition holding that the scheme of compassionate appointment does not lay emphasis on indigency as a criterion for withholding or offering compassionate
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