Important decisions of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court have made it clear that after the retirement or death of an employee, his widowed daughter also has the right to get compassionate appointment. The court gave this decision on the petition of the widowed daughter of a deceased BSNL employee, in which she A demand was made to give compassionate appointment.
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The court, while giving its verdict on the petition of Minister Punita Bhatt alias Punita Dhawan, widow of the deceased employees posted in the General Manager Telecom office of BSNL, said that the claim of compassionate appointment cannot be rejected on the basis of being widowed or married. A division bench of Justice Murthy Rajan Roy and Justice Murthy Om Prakash Shukla set aside the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal rejecting the appointment of Punita Dhawan on the ground that she was the widowed daughter of a deceased employee.
Widow daughter can also get rights
The court said that from the legal point of view, the widow daughter is also considered as a family member of the employee and she has full right to compassionate appointment. The petition claimed that BSNL had wrongly implemented the guidelines under which the deceased employee The widowed daughter of was not allowed to claim compassionate appointment. This judgment is important for cases where the claim for compassionate appointment is rejected because of being widowed or married. Allahabad High Court has made it clear in this decision that no one’s rights can be taken away because of being widowed or married. The court ordered BSNL to consider the petitioner’s claim for compassionate appointment in the next two months.
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