Judgment Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari, J.

The present Original Petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India challenges the order dated 30^th December 2025 passed in O.A.No.180/00383/2024 by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ernakulam Bench whereby the claim of the petitioner seeking compassionate appointment has been rejected.

Facts

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner is the son of late K.Karthikeyan. He died on 25.09.2011, while in service after rendering 28 years, 2 months and 18 days of service. He belonged to OBC community. Soon after the death of the deceased employee, the petitioner’s mother Leena applied for compassionate appointment for the petitioner to Group-C, in the prescribed format. Thereafter, the respondents demanded certain documents which were provided by the petitioner. The petitioner was assured that he would be given employment assistance under the compassionate appointment scheme and since that was not done, being aggrieved, he approached the Central Administrative Tribunal in the impugned Original Application seeking a direction to the respondents to grant compassionate appointment to the petitioner herein. The Original Applicat