1 S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.850/2006 Veni Ram v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. Date of Order :: 11th April, 2008 HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mr. D.K.Parihar, for the petitioner. Mr. M.R.Singhvi, for the respondents. .... This petition for writ is preferred to claim appointment on compassionate grounds being a ward of deceased government servant Late Shri Ganesh Lal Dangi. Shri Ganesh Lal Dangi, while working as Class- IV Employee in the office of the Commissioner, Excise, Udaipur, died on 7.10.1994. Being minor, at the time of death of Shri Ganesh Lal the petitioner, on acquiring majority submitted an application for appointment on compassionate grounds on 28.2.2004. The respondents did not choose to employ the petitioner on the ground that the application for appointment was not submitted within the period prescribed for seeking appointment on compassionate grounds. While claiming appointment on compassionate grounds, the argument advanced is that in the year 1994 the petitioner was minor and, therefore, he claimed appointment only on acquiring majority but the respondents denied for the same for no just reason. Counsel for the petitioner also placed reliance upon the judgment of this Court in the case of Smt. Raj 2 Rani v. The Collector (Land Record) Ajmer & Anr., (1994(68)FLR 272). I do not find any substance in this petition for writ simply on the ground that the appointments on compassionate grounds cannot be claimed as a matter of right. Such appointments are given only to meet the immediate shock received by the family of a government servant dying while in service. In the present matter Shri Ganesh Lal died in the year 1994 and after a lapse of about 14 years, the family must have settled the shock warranting immediate assistance, thus, I do not consider it appropriate to direct the respondents to employ the petitioner now, on compassionate grounds. The law laid down in the case of Smt. Raj Rani (supra) is having no relevance in the present case as that was the matter relating to appointments under Rajasthan Recruitment of Dependents of Government Servants Dying While in Service Rules, 1975 and not to the Rajasthan Appointment on Compassionate Grounds to the Dependents of Government Servants Dying While in Service Rules, 1996. The petition for writ is accordingly dismissed. ( GOVIND MATHUR ),J. Kkm/ps.