IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3135 of 2010 1. PRAMOD KUMAR S/O LATE YAMUNA ROY R/O VILL.- KEWATA, TOLA KAJPUR, P.O.- KEWATA, P.S.- DALSINGSARAI, DISTT.- SAMASTIPUR Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, REGISTRATION ( NIBANDHAN MAHA NIRIKSHAK ) REGISTRATION DEPTT. GOVT. OF BIHAR 3. THE INCHARGE DEPUTY COLLECTOR DISTT.- LEGAL CELL, SAMASTIPUR 4. THE S.D.O. DALSINGSARAI DISTT.- SAMASTIPUR 5. THE AWAR NIBANDHAK, DALSINGSARAI DISTT.- SAMASTIPUR 6. THE COLLECTOR SAMASTIPUR, AT SAMASTIPUR ----------- 2. 13.05.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The claim in the application is for grant of a Stamp Vendor licence on compassionate ground. The submission is that the refusal to consider grant of licence on that ground by the impugned order dated 14.5.2009 violates Article 14 of the Constitution inasmuch as the order dated 19.10.2009 demonstrates that in the year 2006, licences have been granted on compassionate ground. The impugned order dated 14.5.2009 states that after the amendment on 12.11.2008 in the Bihar Stamp Rules there is no provision for appointment of a Stamp Vendor on compassionate ground. What may have been done prior to the 2 rules being amended is not relevant if the petitioner’s application is being considered thereafter dated 30.4.2009. Even otherwise a claim for compassionate appointment anywhere is an exception to the general rule of appointment/selection in accordance with law. Even if the appointment in the year 2006 may be looked upon as wrong, there being no material on record placed by the petitioner to demonstrate what was the policy existing in 2006, no relief can flow to the petitioner to demand parity in illegality. The present order shall however not preclude the petitioner from applying for a Stamp Vendor licence on his own merits when the respondents are required to consider the same in accordance with law without being prejudiced by the rejection order dated 14.5.2009 for compassionate appointment and not a merit appointment. The writ application stands disposed with the aforesaid observations. P. Kumar ( Navin Sinha, J.)