Supreme Court of India
V. Sivamurthy v. State of Andhra Pradesh. and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered view that the case of dependants of medically invalidated em- .. ployees stands on an equal footing to that of dependants of employees who die in harness for purpose of making an ex- ception to the rule.
Judgment, page 28
From the headnote
Service Law: Appointment - Compassionate appointment - Principle 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 scheme as unconstitutional, being violative 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…
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- 2018 Union of India and Anr. v. V. R. Tripathi
- 2022 State of Uttar Pradesh and Others v. Mohd Rehan Khan
- 2011 Bhawani Prasad Sonkar v. Union of India & Ors.
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