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2026 Supreme(Online)(UK) 1276

HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
VED PRAKASH PUROHIT – Appellant
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STATE OF UTTARAKHAND – Respondent


Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings S N L o . .

Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS and Registrar’s order with Signatures WPSS 1229/ 2026 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Puneet Kansal, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. K.N. Joshi, Deputy AG, for the State.

(2) Petitioner’s father was serving as Assistant Teacher in a government aided institution, who died while in harness in 2001. Petitioner applied for compassionate appointment and he was offered appointment as Junior Clerk by creating a supernumerary post, on 3.11.2010. Petitioner accepted that offer and joined duties as Junior Clerk in 2010 itself. Now, in this writ petition, petitioner contends that he should have been appointed as Assistant Teacher and he has sought quashing of the order dated 3.11.2010, whereby he was offered appointment as Junior Clerk.

(3) This Court is not inclined to grant the relief as prayed for. Law is well settled that compassionate appointment is given to a dependant family member of the deceased employee to help the family tide over the sudden financial crisis, which befalls upon it on account of death of the sole bread earner. Petitioner accepted that offer, without raising any grie

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