ANAND KUMAR Vs. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard counsel for the parties.

(2.) Petitioner was appointed on compassionate ground in the Regional Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur on his application vide appointment letter dated 6.9.2000(Annexure-6) bearing order no. RIT(E) 3668/2000 issued by the Principal of the Institute. Petitioner's father admittedly died on 3.5.1980 and as the respondents pointed out, he had already been dismissed from service in the year 1977 before his death.

(3.) In the present writ application the termination of petitioner's appointment vide order contained at Annexure-12 dated 17.2.2005 issued by the Director of the Institute has been challenged inter-alia on the ground that it suffers from non-application of mind and it fails to deal with the contents furnished by the petitioner through his reply to the show cause being Annexure-10 and 11. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that one of the reason to terminate the petitioner's services is that his elder brother was already in service.