Marriage no ground to deny compassionate appointment: HC

Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court has ruled that compassionate appointment cannot be denied to an unmarried woman on the ground that she got married after submission of the application form.
Justice Indrajeet Singh issued the order on a petition by Kshama Chaturvedi. The order allowed her petition on the grounds that she was unmarried at the time of submitting the application for a compassionate appointment. The court said objections raised by the respondents regarding the petitioner’s marriage were unsustainable as the petitioner solemnized her marriage a year after submitting the application.
Sunil Samaria, counsel for the petitioner, said the petitioner’s father died while working as a senior teacher of English on November 29, 2008.
The petitioner, then an unmarried daughter of the deceased teacher, filed an application on December 12, 2008, seeking compassionate appointment under Rajasthan Compassionate Appointment of Dependents of Deceased Government Servants Rules, 1996.
A year after submitting the application, the petitioner got married, and the matter remained pending for almost four years after it.
The respondents finally declined to give her an appointment on the ground of her marriage. Now, after the high court’s ruling, Kshama Chaturvedi may get appointed, he added.