(1.) IN all these cases, the validity of the provision of Rule 5 of the Rajasthan Compassionate Appointment of Dependents of Deceased Government. Servants Rules, 1996 (for short, 'the Rules') has been challenged as being unconstitutional, ultra -vires and arbitrary.
(2.) THE relevant rules, for determination of the controversy, read as under:
(3.) ON the other hand, learned Counsel appearing for the respondents have submitted that the Rules are constitutionally valid and even in case where a son or unmarried daughter who is in government service, is financially supporting the family, the widow is entitled for seeking employment. Therefore, the Rules are valid and sufficiently achieve the purpose for which the same have been enacted.