ORDER/JUDGMENT : – Shri Manish Tiwari, learned counsel for the petitioner.

Shri Utkarsh Agarwal, learned Panel Lawyer for the State.

2. This petition has been filed assailing impugned order dated 9-6-2016 passed by the Conservator of Forest and Divisional Forest Officer, General Forest Division, Dindori, whereby an application moved by the petitioner claiming compassionate appointment on account of death of her brother late Shri Ashish Dixit on 9-4-2011 while he was working as a Forestor and was deployed in the service of the respondents has been turned down in consonance with the recitals of the policy dated 29-9-2014 framed by the State Government, General Administration Department, Mantralaya, referring to para 2.6 of the said policy wherein it is mentioned that only unmarried daughter dependent on the deceased Government servant is entitled to compassionate appointment.

3. Shri Agarwal submits that admittedly petitioner is married. She is wife of one Dr. Brajendra Shukla. Secondly, there is no evidence on record to substantiate that despite marriage to Shri Brajendra Shukla, she was dependent on her brother late Shri Ashish Dixit. It is further submitted that merely on the stre