IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.6035 of 2011 Sanjay Kumar Singh Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors ----------- 02. 02.8.2011 Death of the so-called employee happened on 14.4.1984. Whatever be the explanations offered by the petitioner for making a claim for compassionate appointment now, the fact that 26 years have gone past since the loss of the bread-earner by itself takes away the essence of making appointment under the compassionate head, in terms of the policy and the law declared not only by this Court but even by the Apex Court. No direction, therefore, is required to be issued in matter of grant of benefit of compassionate appointment after more than two and half decades of the death of the employee. Writ has no merit. It is dismissed. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)