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2000 Supreme(Pat) 1312

AFTAB ALAM, RAVI S.DHAVAN
Usha Gautam – Appellant
Versus
State Of Bihar – Respondent


Judgment

Aftab Alam, J.

1. The hunger of Government employment coupled with the scheme of appointment on compassionate grounds gives rise to strange and sad cases. Here is one such case in which two own sisters are vying with each other for appointment following the death of their father and they have made this Court the battle ground for their fight.

2. One Janardan Pandey died on 30.7.1990 while working as an Assistant teacher in Mangal Seminary Inter College, Motihari. The writ petitioner-appellant being one of the daughters of the deceased made an application for appointment on compassionate grounds. On 31.8.1993 the District Compassionate Appointment Committee, East Champaran recommended her for appointment as Assistant teacher in an elementary school. It later transpired that she did not fulfil the eligibility criteria for appointment as an Assistant teacher as she had less than 45% marks in the matriculation examination. This gave rise to the first round of litigation between the writ petitioner on the one side and the Government authorities on the other. This issue was concluded by an order, dated 8.8.1995 passed by this Court in C.W.J.C. No. 4458 of 1995 filed at her instan














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