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Subhadra Devi vs The State Of Bihar &Amp; Ors on 29 October, 2010

Patna High Court – Orders
Subhadra Devi vs The State Of Bihar &Amp; Ors on 29 October, 2010
                 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                               CWJC No.4243 of 2006

                 SUBHADRA DEVI WIFE OF LATE RAJENDRA PRASAD
                 LAL, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE NASIBCHAK, P.S.
                 BARBIGHA, SHEIKHPURA.

                                         Versus
                             THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS
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2 29/10/2010 Petitioner has already been appointed on Class

IV post on the basis of compassionate ground. Now she

is looking for better avenues by asking for a direction for

her appointment on Class III post.

Law is already there in this regard. It is well

settled by this Court in various decisions that

appointment on compassionate ground is only a

mechanism to reach out to the family in distress and not a

mechanism to acquire higher post and privilege.

Petitioner has been appointed on Class IV post and there

is no law by virtue of which she can be directed to be

promoted to the next higher post or appointed on the next

higher post especially when she has been appointed

under a special circumstance not satisfying the touch

stone of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India.
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No direction can be given in this regard. This

writ application is dismissed.

AMIN/                   (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)