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The Director of Town Panchayat & Ors. v. M. Jayabal & Anr. Etc.

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Reported as [2025] 12 S.C.R. 593
Bench Rajesh Bindal and Manmohan JJ.
Decided 12 December 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the respondent-writ petitioners, upon submitting their applications in the year 2006-2005 did nothing further to pursue the matter, till the year 2015 i.e. for a period of ten years.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the compassionate appointment of a family member on account of death of an employee in service, is as a matter of right; whether the dependent family member of a deceased employee, after being appointed on a post on compassionate basis, can later on seek appointment on a post higher; and whether a dependent family member of a deceased employee can seek compassionate appointment on a post higher than the post which the deceased was holding, on the ground of eligibility. Headnotes† Service law – Compassionate appointment – Appointment to higher post –

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