Supreme Court of India

V. Sivamurthy v. State of Andhra Pradesh. and Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 11 S.C.R. 1201

Bench R.V. Raveendran and Lokeshwar Singh Panta JJ.

Decided 12 August 2008

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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

Authorities it was built on

1960 Gazula Dasaratha Rama Rao v. The State of Andhra Pradesh & Others cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2022 Mukesh Kumar & Anr v. The Union of India & Ors. relied on
2025 Canara Bank v. Ajithkumar G.K. referred to
2018 Union of India and Anr. v. V. R. Tripathi referred to
2022 State of Uttar Pradesh and Others v. Mohd Rehan Khan mentioned
2011 Bhawani Prasad Sonkar v. Union of India & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to · 2 mentioned

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