CICILIA BESRA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This application has been filed by the Petitioner for the following reliefs;

(2.) The Petitioner's husband was in a clerical job in the Government School, Borio and he died in harness on 9.8.1992. There was a dispute regarding the post retiral benefit amongst the family members of the Petitioner. It is alleged that in the year 1992, the son of the Petitioner was aged about 11 at the time of the death of the deceased. The Petitioner filed an application on 17.11.2003 for seeking employment of her son. Thereafter, the said application was considered by the Respondent authorities and the same was rejected on the ground that the same is time barred.

(3.) The Respondent authorities have filed a counter affidavit stating therein that the rule provides that the application must be submitted within a period of five years but the said application was time barred, hence the application was rejected by the District Compassionate Appointment Committee, Sahibganj.