{"id":53949,"date":"2011-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somaru-vs-central-coalfield-limited-or-on-16-august-2011"},"modified":"2017-04-25T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:32:25","slug":"somaru-vs-central-coalfield-limited-or-on-16-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somaru-vs-central-coalfield-limited-or-on-16-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Somaru vs Central Coalfield Limited &amp; Or on 16 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Somaru vs Central Coalfield Limited &amp; Or on 16 August, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI\n                W.P.(S) No. 1170 of 2011\n                         --------\n<\/pre>\n<p>Somaru      &#8230;    &#8230;   &#8230;      &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; Petitioner<br \/>\n                         Versus<br \/>\nCentral Coalfields Limited and others &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; Respondents\n<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8212;&#8212;-\n<\/p>\n<p>CORAM:              HON&#8217;BLE MR. JUSTICE D.N.PATEL\n<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<pre>\nFor the petitioner:     Mr. Nand Kishore Prasad Sinha\nFor the respondents:    Mr. A.K. Das\n                        --------\nOrder No. 02: Dated 16th August, 2011\nPer D.N.Patel, J.\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>1.   The present writ petition has been preferred by the petitioner for<br \/>\n     getting compassionate appointment, because his father has<br \/>\n     expired on 23rd December, 2003 while in service of the<br \/>\n     respondents. The petitioner, being the son of the deceased<br \/>\n     employee,     applied    within   the   stipulated   time   for   getting<br \/>\n     compassionate appointment and since the respondents have not<br \/>\n     appointed the petitioner, the present writ petition has been<br \/>\n     preferred in the year, 2011.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.   Having heard learned counsel for both the sides and looking to the<br \/>\n     facts and circumstances of the case, I see no reason to entertain<br \/>\n     this writ petition, mainly for the following reasons:<br \/>\n     (I)     Father of the petitioner, who was serving with the<br \/>\n     respondents, expired during course of employment on 23rd<br \/>\n     December, 2003 and the petitioner, being son of the deceased<br \/>\n     employee, has applied for compassionate appointment.\n<\/p>\n<p>     (ii)    It appears that more than half a dozen years has lapsed<br \/>\n     from the date of death of the father of the petitioner and, thus, the<br \/>\n     very purpose of compassionate appointment has been frustrated<br \/>\n     by now.\n<\/p>\n<p>     (iii)   The Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court in the case of <a href=\"\/doc\/1572559\/\">State of U.P. v.<br \/>\n     Paras Nath,<\/a> as reported in (1998)2 SCC 412, especially at<br \/>\n     paragraph nos. 4, 5 and 6, has held as under:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>                  &#8220;4.    Seventeen years after the death of his father,<br \/>\n                  the respondent, on 8.1.1986, made an application for<br \/>\n                  being appointed to the post of a Primary School<br \/>\n                  Teacher under the said Rules. His application was<br \/>\n                  rejected. He, thereafter, filed a writ petition before the<br \/>\n                  High Court. This writ petition was allowed by the High<br \/>\n                  Court and an appeal from the decision of the Single<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                -2-<\/span><br \/>\n            Judge of the High Court was also dismissed by the<br \/>\n            Division Bench of the High Court. Hence the State<br \/>\n            has filed the present appeal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>            5.    The purpose of providing employment to a<br \/>\n            dependant of a Government servant dying in harness<br \/>\n            in preference to anybody else, is to mitigate the<br \/>\n            hardship caused to the family of the employee on<br \/>\n            account of his unexpected death while still in service.<br \/>\n            To alleviate the distress of the family, such<br \/>\n            appointments are permissible on compassionate<br \/>\n            grounds provided there are Rules providing for such<br \/>\n            appointments. The purpose is to provide immediate<br \/>\n            financial assistance to the family of a deceased<br \/>\n            Government servant. None of these considerations<br \/>\n            can operate when the application is made after a long<br \/>\n            period of time such as seventeen years in the present<br \/>\n            case.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>            6.     We may, in this connection, refer to only one<br \/>\n            judgment of this Court in the case of <a href=\"\/doc\/43443\/\">Union of India v.<br \/>\n            Bhagwan Singh. In<\/a> this case, the application for<br \/>\n            appointment on similar compassionate grounds was<br \/>\n            made twenty years after the railway servant&#8217;s death.<br \/>\n            This Court observed:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>               &#8216;The     reason     for   making    compassionate<br \/>\n               appointment, which is exceptional, is to provide<br \/>\n               immediate financial assistance to the family of a<br \/>\n               Government servant who dies in harness, when<br \/>\n               there is no other earning member in the family.'&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>                                           (Emphasis supplied)<\/p>\n<p>      Further, the Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court in the case of Sanjay<br \/>\nKumar v. State of Bihar &amp; ors., as reported in (2000)7 SCC 192,<br \/>\nespecially at paragraph nos. 2 and 3, has held as under:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>            &#8220;2.    Learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of<br \/>\n            the petitioner has placed strong reliance on the<br \/>\n            decision of a learned Single Judge of the Patna High<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                               3.<\/span><br \/>\n            Court in Chandra Bhushan v. State of Bihar. Learned<br \/>\n            Senior Counsel points out that it was held in that case<br \/>\n            that an applicant&#8217;s right cannot be defeated on the<br \/>\n            ground of delay caused by authorities which was<br \/>\n            beyond the control of the applicant. Learned Senior<br \/>\n            Counsel further points out that instead of following the<br \/>\n            above judgment, the same learned Judge has now<br \/>\n            held on 21.4.1997 that the application is time-barred.<br \/>\n            Learned counsel has placed before us a judgment of<br \/>\n            this Court in <a href=\"\/doc\/327850\/\">Director of Education (Secondary) v.<br \/>\n            Pushpendra Kumar. He<\/a> submits that, in this case, a<br \/>\n            direction was given to create supernumerary posts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>            3.     We are unable to agree with the submissions of<br \/>\n            the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner. This<br \/>\n            Court has held in a number of cases that<br \/>\n            compassionate appointment is intended to enable the<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                     -3-<\/span><br \/>\n                                family of the deceased employee to tide over sudden<br \/>\n                                crisis resulting due to death of the breadearner<br \/>\n                                had left the family in penury and without any means of<br \/>\n                                livelihood. In fact such a view has been expressed in<br \/>\n                                the very decision cited by the petitioner in <a href=\"\/doc\/327850\/\">Director of<br \/>\n                                Education v. Pushpendra Kumar. It<\/a> is also significant<br \/>\n                                to notice that on the date when the first application<br \/>\n                                was made by the petitioner on 2.6.1998, the petitioner<br \/>\n                                was a minor and was not eligible for appointment.<br \/>\n                                This is conceded by the petitioner. There cannot be<br \/>\n                                reservation of a vacancy till such time as the<br \/>\n                                petitioner becomes a major after a number of years,<br \/>\n                                unless there are some specific provisions. The very<br \/>\n                                basis of compassionate appointment is to see that the<br \/>\n                                family gets immediate relief.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>                                                                (Emphasis supplied)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>              5.   Thus, in view of the aforesaid decisions and also looking to the fact<br \/>\n                   that more than half a dozen years has lapsed after the death of the<br \/>\n                   deceased employee, I see no reason to entertain this writ petition<br \/>\n                   for granting compassionate appointment to the petitioner. Hence<br \/>\n                   there is no substance in this writ petition, which is, accordingly,<br \/>\n                   dismissed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>                                                         ( D.N. Patel, J. )<br \/>\nManoj\/cp.2.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Somaru vs Central Coalfield Limited &amp; Or on 16 August, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI W.P.(S) No. 1170 of 2011 &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Somaru &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; Petitioner Versus Central Coalfields Limited and others &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; Respondents &#8212;&#8212;- CORAM: HON&#8217;BLE MR. 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