PRAMOD KUMAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner in this case has filed this writ petition against the denial of employment to him under the provisions of the Rajasthan Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying While in Service Rules, 1975.

(2.) THE petitioner's father was a teacher in the Education Department and while being in service he died on 8. 01. 1971. THE petitioner was minor at the time of the death of his father. After passing Secondary Examination in the year 1982, he applied for employment under the aforesaid Rules of 1975, which came into force with effect from 2nd Sept. , 1972. THE employment has been denied to the petitioner on the ground that the said Rules of 1975 came into force with effect from 2. 09. 1972, while the father of the petitioner expired prior to 2. 09. 1972. It has been held by a Division Bench of this Court in the case of Shasi Kant vs. State of Rajasthan, reported in 1989 (1) RLR 586 that merely because the Rules came into force with effect from 2. 09. 1972, employment cannot be denied to the dependants of a government servant dying while in service.