Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 926 · Decided 12 August 2008
V. Sivamurthy v. State of Andhra PRADESH. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 926 · [2008] 11 S.C.R. 1201
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4210/2003
- Decided
- 12 August 2008
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16, 226
Headnote
Service Law: A B Appointment - Compassionate appointment - Principle C relating to - Summarized and re-iterated. Appointment - Compassionate appointment - For de­ pendant family members of Government servants retiring on medical invalidation - High Court held the. compassionate 0 appointment of Article 1 o of the Constitution - On appeal, held: Compassion­ ate appointment is not restricted to only one contingency of death in harness - For the very reasons for which compas­ sionate appointment to a dependant of a government servant . who· dies in harness is held
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