S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.2493/2007 Ashfaq Ali Vs. R.S.R.T.C. & Ors. Date of Order :: 5.5.2008 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mr. M.A. Siddiqui, for the petitioner. Mr. P.K. Lohra, for the respondents. ... By this petition for writ the petitioner is claiming appointment on compassionate grounds being a ward of deceased employee of the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation. The father of the petitioner died on 15.7.1992 when the petitioner was minor. On attaining majority he submitted an application for appointment on compassionate grounds in the month of March 2002 that is after a lapse of about ten years from the date of death of the government employee. It is well settled that appointment on compassionate grounds can not be claimed as a matter of right. Such appointment are an exception to the principle of equality and is required to be accepted in exceptional circumstances, that is just to meet the immediate shock received by family of the deceased employee due to his untimely death. In the instant matter the employee died in the year 1992 and the claim by the petitioner was made in the year 2002 and now we are in year 2008. At such a belated stage I do not consider it appropriate to issue any direction for granting appointment on compassionate grounds. The writ petition is dismissed accordingly. (GOVIND MATHUR), J. Jgoyal