1 S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.6671/2008 Rakesh Kumar v. UCO Bank & Ors. Date of Order :: 15th September, 2008 HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mr. K.S.Yadav, for the petitioner. .... By this petition for writ the petitioner, while claiming the appointment on compassionate grounds, is challenging validity of clause (a) of para 7 of the Scheme for Recruitments of Dependents of Deceased Employees on Compassionate Grounds (hereinafter referred to as “the Scheme”) in UCO Bank. The necessary factual matrix of the case is that Shri Brijlal, father of the petitioner, died on 17.6.1998 while in service of the respondent bank. The respondent bank denied appointment to the petitioner on compassionate grounds in view of the provisions of clause (a) of para 7 of the Scheme that prescribes that “the dependents of the employees who die after attaining the age of 55 years are not eligible for compassionate appointment / payment of lump sum”. 2 The contention of counsel for the petitioner is that the denial for compassionate appointment/payment of lump sum as per clause (a) referred above is highly unjust and that is having no rational with the object sought to be achieved under the Scheme. Without entering into the question relating to validity of the provision concerned, I am inclined to reject this petition for writ on the count that the petitioner is a person of 34 years and he is claiming appointment being a ward of Shri Brijlal who died on 17.6.1998. It is well settled that that the appointments on compassionate grounds are deviation from the general principle of equality and these type of appointments are given in extraordinary circumstances just to meet harness faced by the wards of an employee who normally happens to be the sole bread earner. In the instant matter Shri Brijlal died about a decade earlier and whatever harness existing at the time of his death is now not available. Thus, even by assuming non-existent of clause (a) of para 7 of the Scheme, I am not inclined to grant the relief as claimed by the petitioner. 3 The petition for writ, therefore, is dismissed. ( GOVIND MATHUR ),J. kkm/ps.