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G. ISAAC (Lawyer)     07 July 2025

Compassionate appoinment

A married lady about 35 year ( both parents died) prays for a job vis compassionate appointment of her mothers job who had worked as a headmistress in Govt, high school and died at 2018, 57 years due to illeness.  The decessed woman is survived by 2 children (boy & girl) of which boy is working in a bank for 10 years.

Now this married lady  qualifying B.E., B,Ed., (husband doing private jobs) with a baby seeks the job of her decessed mother. No application nor any written requests to the Department were made these years for the job as she was wrongly misled that "married woman cannot get compasonate appointment."

It is a rule that application for compassionate appointment must be submitted to the concerned depts within 3 years from the death of the decessed person.,

Kindly advise the possibilities and ways for fetching the job.



 5 Replies

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     07 July 2025

Let she apply for job on compassionate grounds to the department concerned. 

If her application is rejected citing reasons thereto,  she can then approach high court with a writ petition narrating her innocence and request for the compassionate grounds appointment 

 

G. ISAAC (Lawyer)     07 July 2025

thank you sir.  can u refer any precedent similar to this case.

kavksatyanarayana (subregistrar/supdt.(retired))     07 July 2025

The compassionate appointment will be allowed to unmarried daughters (up to 25 years of age) and widowed daughters, but not married daughters, as they are not dependents of their parents.  The application for appointment should be submitted within one year of the date of the deceased employee's death.

G. ISAAC (Lawyer)     07 July 2025

Thank u sir for the solution

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     07 July 2025

No precedents will attract the sympathy of the court to decide the mattet, the court will decide based on the facts before it and if convinced it may deviate from the existing procedures of law and may pass orders accordingly or else the court may even outrightly reject the application.


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