JUDGMENT

Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J. - Leave granted.

2. The appeal arises out of a judgment of a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dated 25 August 2020. The Division Bench dismissed the intracourt appeal filed by the appellants against the judgment of a Single Judge of the High Court dated 5 November 2019 directing the appellants to consider the candidature of the respondent for appointment to a Class IV post on compassionate grounds.

3. The father of the respondent was employed by the Government of Uttar Pradesh as a driver in the Office of Economics and Statistics Officer at Shahjahanpur. He died in harness in 2015. The respondent was appointed on a 'temporary basis' in the Class III post of a Junior Assistant at the Office of Economics and Statistics, Shahjahanpur. The letter of appointment dated 30 May 2016 stipulates that the respondent has to acquire a typing speed of twenty five words per minute within a year in terms of the condition stipulated in Rule 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Recruitment of Dependents of Government Servants Dying in Harness (Tenth Amendment) Rules 2014['2014 Rules']. Clause 4 of the letter of appointment is in the following terms:

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