IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16219 of 2010 SUNITA DEVI D/o Late Rajeshwar Das w/o Mahesh Das, at present resident of village Teghra, P.O and P.S Teghra District Begusarai ...Petitioner Versus 1. The Union Of India through Divisional Railway Manager, North Eastern Railway, Sonepur District Saran 2. Divisional Railway Manager, North East Central Railway, Sonepur District Saran 3. General Manager, North East Central Railway, Hajipur District Saran 4. Divisional Mechanical Engineer, North Eastern Railway, Sonepur District Saran ....... Respondents ----------- 2 30-09-2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the railways. A counter affidavit has been filed today but it is not necessary to go into the averments made in the counter affidavit. From the admitted facts it is clear that father of the petitioner died in harness while in service under the railways in the year 1982. The petitioner, who is married daughter of deceased, applied for compassionate appointment in the year 2003 which was rejected in the year 2009 and thereafter O.A. no. 529/09 was filed before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Patna Bench, Patna which has been rejected by the impugned order dated 6th October, 2009. Considering that death of the concerned employee was in the year 1982, the claim for 2 compassionate appointment made after more than two decades has rightly not been accepted. We find no merit in this writ petition. It is, accordingly, dismissed. BKS/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, J.)