JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri Anubhav Sinha, Advocate, holding brief of Sri Amaresh Sinha, learned counsel for the respondent-appellant and Sri Vijay Prakash Jaiswal, learned counsel for the petitioner-respondent.

2. The present intra-court appeal has been filed against the order of the learned single-judge dated 22.2.2019 passed in Priyanka Agarwal vs. Union of India and Others (Writ-A No. 51712 of 2017). By that order, the learned single-judge has allowed the writ petition and directed the appellant-respondent to consider the claim of the respondent-petitioner for grant of compassionate appointment, ignoring the cut-off date i.e. 1.11.2014 arising under the Scheme for Compassionate Appointment in Public Sector and General Insurance Companies, introduced vide communication dated 7th August, 2014, issued by the Director, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

3. The petitioner’s husband Sri Surendra Kumar Agarwal died-in-harness on 6.9.2014, while working on the post of Assistant, with the Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., Moradabad. Undisputedly, on the date of occurrence of his death, there did not exist a scheme for grant of compassionate appointment,