IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO(S). OF 2024 (@ SLP (C) No. 32015 of 2016)
MEDHA TIWARI ...Appellant(s)
Vs.
STATE OF RAJASTHAN & ANR. ...Respondent(s)
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, learned counsel has
brought to our notice, the case of the appellant who is a
divorced daughter of an erstwhile employee of the State whose
application for compassionate appointment has been rejected on
14.05.2015 on the ground that a divorced daughter is not a
dependant, though curiously a widowed daughter is a dependant
under the rules. The writ petition filed by her was also
dismissed by the High Court following the decision in Sumer
Kanwar vs. State of Rajasthan reported in 2012 (3) RLW 2546
(Raj.)
3. The relevant Rule of the Rajasthan Compassionate
Appointment of Dependents of Deceased Government Servants
Rules, 1996 as on the date of consideration is as under:-
2(c)- “Dependant” means if spouse, son, unmarried or widowed daughter, “adopted son/adopted unmarried daughter” legally adopted by the deceased Government servant during his/her life time and who were wholly dependent on the decased Government servant at the time
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of his/her death”
4. Pending disposal of the civil appeal before us two
developments have taken place. First being that the Rule
itself was amen...