IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4493 of 2009 Sharda Devi . Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors . ----------- 2/ 21/07/2011 No one appears for the petitioner. The petitioner’s husband died on 16.7.1994. Her son was a seven year old minor on that date. After he attained majority, the application for compassionate appointment was made on 19.3.2005. The law on compassionate appointment stands too well settled that it is not an inheritable right by descent requiring the post to be preserved for the legal heirs. If the applicant remained a minor during the period that the application could have been submitted within five years and attained majority thereafter, no direction for consideration of a claim for compassionate appointment contrary to the policy governing the same can be passed. The writ application is dismissed. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)