Supreme Court of India

The Govt. of India & Anr. v. P. Venkatesh

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Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 1 March 2019

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Service law: Compassionate appointment – Claim of – Delay of over a decade in raising a claim by son of the deceased government employee– Effect of – Held: Essence of the claim of compassionate appointment lies in the immediacy of the need – Recourse to the tribunal suffered from a delay of over a decade in the first instance – Staleness of the claim took away the very basis of providing compassionate appointment – Thus, the claim of compassionate appointment is rejected – Judgment of the High Court which had allowed the claim is set aside – Delay/laches.

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