CWP No.5019 of 2014 (O&M)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

CWP No.5019 of 2014 (O&M)

Date of Decision: 10.08.2015

Amandeep Kaur

.... Petitioner

Versus

State of Punjab and others

.... Respondents

CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV NARAIN RAINA

Present:

Mr. S.L. Chander Shekhar, Advocate,

for the petitioner.

1. To be referred to the Reporters or not?

2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest?

RAJIV NARAIN RAINA, J.

1.

The petitioner has approached this court claiming a direction to the

respondents to provide her compassionate appointment in any of the

Departments of the Government of Punjab including her late father's parent

department. Her father had served as a constable in the Punjab Police and

died of illness in the year 1986 when she was two years of age. The

petitioner attained the age of majority in 2003 when her mother made an

application to the Head of the Police Department that her daughter's case be

considered for ex-gratia employment in terms of the then existing scheme.

That request made on November 21, 2002 was considered and vide an

order passed by the Director General of Police, Punjab addressed