214 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 04.02.2026 MANASA ....Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. V.K. Shukla, Advocate and Mr. Ashish Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Vikas Arora, DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Tarun Vir Singh Lehal, Advocate for respondent No.3.

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HARPREET SINGH BRAR , J (Oral):

1. The present civil writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of Certiorari/Mandamus, declaring the action of the respondents in denying compassionate appointment to the petitioner on account of the death of her father while in service, as illegal, arbitrary, unconstitutional and violative of the policy dated 21.11.2002 (Annexure P-1). The denial is based solely on the ground that the petitioner is a married daughter. The petitioner also seeks quashing of the impugned order dated 10.06.2020 (Annexure P-4), whereby her claim for compassionate appointment was rejected on wholly flimsy and hyper-technical grounds, contrary to the spirit and ratio of the judgment dated 17.01.2020 (Annexure P-5) passed by this Hon’