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MOHIT KUMAR SHAH
Gauri Shankar Sah – Appellant
Versus
Bihar State Power Holding Company Ltd. – Respondent
Mohit Kumar Shah, J. – The present writ petition has been filed seeking the following relief: –
“1. That this application is being filed for quashing of order contained in Memo No.4899 dated 07.12.2010 issued by General Manager cum Chief Engineer, Tirhut Electric Supply Area, Muzaffarpur whereby and whereunder the petition filed by the petitioner for grant of appointment on compassionate ground has been rejected. And further for a direction upon the respondents to grant appointment to the petitioner on compassionate ground as father of petitioner died in harness during service period from the post of Meter Reader while working in Electric Supply Division, Motihari under erstwhile Bihar State Electricity Board [now North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited].”
2. Admittedly, the case of the petitioner for grant of compassionate employment is time barred in view of the fact that his father died in harness on 06.06.1982, however, he applied for grant of compassionate employment belatedly after 27 years in the year 2009, after attaining the age of majority, whereas the prescribed period of limitation for filing application for appointment on compassionate ground is five years.
Compassionate appointment cannot be claimed as a matter of right and is granted as a concession to provide immediate relief to the family.
Compassionate appointment is meant to provide immediate sustenance to the family in distress and cannot be claimed or offered after a significant lapse of time and after the crisis is over.
Compassionate appointments cannot be claimed after unreasonable delays, as the purpose of such appointments is to aid families in acute financial distress immediately following the loss of the breadw....
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