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IN HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

SWP No.856/2019

[WP(C ) 13366/2019]

CM No. 703/2019

Reserved on : 23.12.2021

Pronounced on: 31.01.2022

Mst. Shabeena Khan

.....petitioner(s)

Through :- Mr.Lone Altaf Advocate.

V/s

Director, SKIMS and another

.....Respondent(s)

Through :- Mr. Sheikh Feroz Dy.AG

Coram: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR, JUDGE

JUDGMENT

1

The petitioner is a married daughter of late Saleema Khan,

who died in harness while serving as Senior Technician in the

Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar [SKIMS].

On the death of her mother, namely Saleema Khan, the petitioner, claiming

to be the dependent family member of the deceased Government employee,

applied for appointment on compassionate grounds in terms of the Jammu

and Kashmir (Compassionate Appointment) Rules,1994 (for short, Rules of

1994) issued by the Government vide SRO 43 of 1994. The petitioner

claimed her dependence on the deceased mother on the ground that though

she was married, yet she was taken as Khana Nisheen daughter by the

deceased. Her