AVADHESH KUMAR SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the respondents and perused record.

(2.) PRESENT writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been preferred against the impugned order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal Lucknow, whereby the original application filed by the petitioner has been dismissed with regard to his claim for appointment on Group-C post on compassionate ground.

(3.) WHILE assailing the impugned order petitioner's counsel invited attention of this Court to the Circular dated 31.3.1984 (Annexure No. 5 to the writ petition) and other Circulars dated 3.2.1981 and 30.4.1979 (Annexure No. RA-1 and RA- 2). Learned counsel for the petitioner also relied upon the judgment of Apex Court in Valsala Kumari Devi M. v. Director, Higher Secondary Education and others, (2007) 8 SCC 533, as well as Anjani Pratap Singh v. State of U.P. and others, 2008 (26) LCD 82.