LALITA PRASAD Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY means of this petition, moved under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has sought mandamus directing the respondents to appoint petitioner in a Class IV (Group 'd') post in GREF, within the parameters of the rules applicable to said Organization.

(2.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

(3.) BEFORE further discussions, it is pertinent to mention here, that object of appointment on compassionate ground is to provide financial help to the family on the ground of invalida tion / death of employee, who had served with the Organization, to whom the supplementary rules in this regard are applicable. The proper stage for financial help is when an employee dies in service or gets discharged on invalidation, not long thereafter. It is not disputed that the petitioner after discharge was getting post retiral ben efits and long after his retirement, when he died his wife is being paid family pension. The restrictions im posed vide Office Memorandum No. 14014/6/94 -Estt. (D) dated 9th Octo ber, 1998 and O. M. No. 14014/23/99-Estt. (D) dated 3rd December, 1999, cannot be said to be unreasonable and respondents have committed no error of law, in adhering the same.