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Supreme Court and High Courts judgments on Compassionate appointment

43 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2026. A judgment is listed here when its headnote names this subject: the Supreme Court Reports' own headnote (naming the subject), or an AI-written headnote that was reviewed and approved. A mention in the full text alone does not count.

The State of Kerala & Ors. vs Leesamma Joseph
SC · 28 June 2021
[2021] 3 S.C.R. 576 : 2021 INSC 309
Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995: ss.32, 33, 47 – Reservation in promotion – Held: ss.32, 33 and 47 provides for equal opportunity for career progress…
State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. vs Amit Shrivas
SC · 29 September 2020
[2020] 11 S.C.R. 46 : 2020 INSC 565
Service Law: Appointment – Compassionate appointment – Claim for – Rejected on the ground that as per existing policy there was no provision for compassionate appointment, where Government Servant was getting salary from…
Munish Kumar vs State of Himachal Pradesh and Another
SC · 19 May 2020
[2020] 5 S.C.R. 426 : 2020 INSC 398
Service Law: Appointment – Compassionate appointment – Appellant’s father was employee of the first respondent – He died on 16.06.2004 while in service – Though he had applied for retirement on medical grounds prior to t…
N. C. Santhosh vs State of Karnataka & Ors.
SC · 4 March 2020
[2020] 3 S.C.R. 1177 : 2020 INSC 273
Service Law: Appointment – Compassionate appointment – Cancelled on finding that the appointments were made de-hors the provisions of Karnataka Civil Services (Appointment on Compassionate Grounds) Rules, 1996 as amended…
Indian Bank & Ors. vs Promila & Anr.
SC · 8 January 2020
[2020] 1 S.C.R. 408 : 2020 INSC 13
INDIAN BANK & ORS. v. PROMILA & ANR. (Civil Appeal No. 2798 of 2010) JANUARY 08, 2020 [SANJAY KISHAN KAUL AND K. M. JOSEPH, JJ. ] Service Law – Compassionate appointment – Principles applicable to the cases of – In the a…
State of Odisha & Ors. vs Manju Naik
SC · 4 December 2019
[2019] 14 S.C.R. 473 : 2019 INSC 1316
Orissa Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1992: rr. 39, 47(5)(i) and 49 – Invalid pension –Whether the minimum qualifying service prescribed under the Pension Rules can be ignored for the purpose of consideration of invalid…
State of Bihar and Ors. vs Dilip Kumar and Anr.
SC · 18 July 2019
[2019] 8 S.C.R. 1180 : 2019 INSC 775
STATE OF BIHAR AND ORS. v. DILIP KUMAR AND ANR (Civil Appeal No. 5205 of 2019) JULY 18, 2019 [DR. DHANANJAYA Y CHANDRACHUD AND INDIRA BANERJEE, JJ.] Bihar Municipal Body Elementary Teachers (Employment and Service Condit…
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited & Ors. vs Nirval Singh
SC · 6 May 2019
[2019] 7 S.C.R. 905 : 2019 INSC 632
Service law: Appointment – Compassionate appointment – Respondent sought compassionate appointment on account of death of his father who was working with the appellant – The policy of compassionate appointment was in for…
The Govt. of India & Anr. vs P. Venkatesh
SC · 1 March 2019
[2019] 2 S.C.R. 978 : 2019 INSC 302
Service law: Compassionate appointment – Claim of – Delay of over a decade in raising a claim by son of the deceased government employee– Effect of – Held: Essence of the claim of compassionate appointment lies in the im…
State Bank of India & Ors. vs Sheo Shankar Tewari
SC · 8 February 2019
[2019] 3 S.C.R. 718 : 2019 INSC 164
Service Law – Compassionate appointment – Substitution of original scheme under which appointment on compassionate grounds could be made, by a scheme under which only ex gratia payment to be made over to the dependents –…
State of Himachal Pradesh and Anr. vs Parkash Chand
SC · 17 January 2019
[2019] 1 S.C.R. 533 : 2019 INSC 55
Service Law – Compassionate appointment – Benefit of – Death of respondent’s father while in service – Respondent upon attaining majority applied for compassionate appointment – Rejection of, on the ground that the elder…
State of Himachal Pradesh & Anr. vs Shashi Kumar
SC · 16 January 2019
[2019] 2 S.C.R. 432 : 2019 INSC 50
STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH & ANR. v. SHASHI KUMAR (Civil Appeal No.988 of 2019) JANUARY 16, 2019 [DR. DHANANJAYA Y CHANDRACHUD AND HEMANT GUPTA, JJ.] Service Law – Compassionate appointment – The State, if entitled to tak…
Union of India and Anr. vs V. R. Tripathi
SC · 11 December 2018
[2018] 13 S.C.R. 281 : 2018 INSC 1189
Service law : Appointment – Compassionate appointment – Son born to railway employee from second marriage contracted during the subsistence of his first marriage – Benefit of compassionate appointment to the son on the d…

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