Sanjay K. Agrawal, J

1.

The petitioners herein/Union of India has invoked the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India questioning the legality, correctness and validity of the impugned order dated 11.09.2023 by which respondent’s application for grant of compassionate appointment has been allowed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Jabalpur Bench, Circuit Sittings – Bilaspur, C.G and further the Tribunal has directed the petitioners herein to reconsider the case of respondent herein for grant of compassionate appointment on the basis of marksheets in the next CRC meetings.

2.

The aforesaid challenged has been made on the following factual backdrop:-

(i) The respondent’s father was appointed on the post of Gramin Dak Sevak (for brevity “GDS”) on 29.01.1980 and he died in harness on 04.01.2016, leading to filing of application for grant of compassionate appointment on behalf of respondent herein which was rejected by the Competent Authority holding that the respondent does not have the ‘Secondary School Examination pass Certificate’ of 10^th standard conducted by any recognized Board of School/Educational Institution which is the manda