Supreme Court of India

State of Himachal Pradesh and Anr. v. Parkash Chand

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Reported as [2019] 1 S.C.R. 533
Bench Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 17 January 2019

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we are of the view that the judgment of the High Court is unsustainable.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Service Law – Compassionate appointment – Benefit o f – Death of respondent’s father while in service – Respon dent upon attaining majority applied for compassionate appoin tment – Rejection of, on the ground that the elder brother of the respondent is already employed with the State undertaking – Writ petition by the respondent seeking setting aside of the rejection letter and his appointment on compassionate grounds – Issuance of di rection by the High Court to the State to consider cases for appo intment on compassionate basis by sons or daughters of deceased gove rnment employees, even

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on

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