Virendra Gahwai, Bilaspur. Three separate petitions filed in the High Court regarding compassionate appointment have been dismissed. The court said in its order that the financial crisis or poverty faced by the family after the death of the head of the family is the basic criteria set for giving compassionate appointment. The court also said that apart from this, compassionate appointment cannot be claimed as a right. Also read: Leave will be given only for this reason, three minors killed an innocent in the madrasa…
Case 1- The wife of Ramadhar Tiwari, who lives in Ratanpur, filed a petition demanding compassionate appointment for her younger son after her husband’s death. It was said that her husband was working as an Assistant Sub-Inspector in the Police Department. He died during service on 20 August 2007. After which his wife applied to the Bilaspur SP in October and December 2007 for compassionate appointment to her younger son Dinanath Tiwari.
The application was rejected in August 2012. The reason given for this was that Dinanath’s elder brother Kedarnath is working as a Shiksha Karmi class-3. A petition was filed in 2014 challenging this decision. The court rejected the petition after hearing all the parties in the case.
Case 2- Similarly, Yash Mishra, a resident of Baikunthpur, was given compassionate appointment after his father’s death. His mother Sunita Mishra was a lecturer. In the year 2018, the department relieved her from service on the basis of his mother being in a government job. A petition was filed in the High Court regarding this. Yash had told in his application that at the time of his father’s death, he was studying engineering in Bhilai. His father had brain cancer. The entire amount was spent on his treatment. After his father’s death, he left his studies and applied for compassionate appointment. The court rejected his petition after hearing.
Case 3- Suman’s father Ram Murti Sharma, a resident of Kanker, was working as a rural health organizer. He died in June 2019, after which Suman applied for compassionate appointment in the CMHO office of Rajnandgaon in July 2019. Her application was rejected on the basis that her brother Raman Sharma was working as a Shiksha Karmi class-1 Biology in a government school in Kanker, regarding which she filed a petition in the court, but after hearing her petition was rejected.
