Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1189 · Decided 11 December 2018
Union of India and ANR. v. V. R. Tripathi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1189 · [2018] 13 S.C.R. 281
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 12015/2018
- Decided
- 11 December 2018
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, M.R. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16, 14; Hindu Marriage Act Section 16
Headnote
Service law : Appointment - Compassionate appointment - Son born to railway employee from second marriage contracted during the subsistence of his first marriage - Benefit of compassionate appointment to the son on the death of his father - Claim for - Rejected by the and the High Court - Held: There is no right as such to compassionate appointment but only an entitlement, where a scheme or rules envisaging it exist, to be considered in accordance with the provisions - Having regard to the purpose and object of a scheme of compassionate
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