AVTAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner wants a direction from the writ court to provide him compassionate appointment in place of his father who met with an accident on 23rd April, 2008 suffering fatal injury resulting in death on the spot. He was then serving as a Special Police Officer (SPO) with the Punjab Police.

(2.) In order to understand the casualness with which this petition has been filed, especially with reference to the earlier writ petition, it would be appropriate to reproduce the contents of paragraph 12 of the writ petition:-

(3.) This Court never directs parties to file a petition again on the same cause of action with better particulars except when it is prayed for at the bar. It only grants liberty, and therefore, the word "directed" is highly objectionable in pleadings filed before this Court. This Court restrains itself from dismissing this petition with heavy costs. The petitioner has no demonstrable right to compassionate appointment which is not a source of recruitment but the anti thesis of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution. There is nothing on record to suggest anything which may indicate the penurious state of the petitioner or extraordinary monetary travails the family has faced after the death of the Dalip Singh and continues to reel under justifying compassionate appointment.