HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL

Writ Petition (S/S) No. 2228 of 2025

Rana Pratap Singh ......Petitioner

Versus

State of Uttarakhand and others ….Respondents

Present:

Mr. Abhishek Dutt, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Devesh Ghildiyal, Brief Holder for the State.

Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J.(Oral)

The challenge in this petition is made to an appointment

letter dated 21.01.2014, by which the respondent no.3 has been appointed under Uttar Pradesh Recruitment Of Dependants Of Government Servants Dying In Harness Rules, 1974 (“the 1974 Rules”). The petitioner also claims that he should be given appointment

under the 1974 Rules.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the

record.

3. It is the case of the petitioner that his father Late Sri Ramashankar Singh was working as a Forest Guard in Tarai Western Forest Division, when he died on 08.11.2013 leaving behind the mother of the petitioner, his younger brother, respondent no.3 and three sisters. At the relevant time, the petitioner was working as labourer abroad in Qatar. After the death of his father, the petitioner came to his home and requested his mother Smt. Kaushalya Devi to apply for the compassionate appointment under the