Supreme Court of India

The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Ashish Awasthi

Neutral citation
Reported as [2021] 7 S.C.R. 444
Bench M. R. Shah and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 18 November 2021

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, the present appeal succeeds, the impugned judgment and order pass ed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh Bench at Jabalpur in WA No.1559 of 2018 is hereby quashed and set aside by 449 observing that the respondent shall not be entitled for appo intment on compassionate ground on the basis of the subsequent circular/policy dated 31.08.2016.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Service Law – Appointment on compassionate ground – Father of the respondent died on 08.10.2015 – That at the time of death the deceased employee was serving as a work charge and he was paid salary from the contingency fund – That the resp ondent was provided a compensatory amount of Rs. 2 lakhs as per the policy prevalent at the time of death of the deceased empl oyee – Subsequently, the policy came to be amended vide cir cular dated 31.08.2016, under which even in the case of death o f the work charge employee, his heirs/dependents will be entit led to the appointment on compassionate

Authorities it was built on

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.