JAGDISH RAM Vs. CENTRAL COALFIELD LTD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PRESENT petition has been filed assailing the order dated 12.11.2001 (Annexure 5), whereby the claim of the petitioner seeking compassionate appointment was rejected. Perusal of the record would reveal that petitioner's father Late Sri Chandradeep Rabidas was to retire on reaching the age of superannuation on 19.12.1999, however, he has expired, six months before his date of retirement, on 10.06.1998.

(2.) HON'ble Apex Court in the case of Bhawani Prasad Sonkar Vs. Union of India and others, (2011)4 SCC 209 in Paragraph 20 has held as under:-