SBCWP NO.7564/09. 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR. O R D E R S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION No.7564/2009. Man Singh Versus Jaipur Vidhyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. & Anr. Date of order:- July 6, 2009. HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Shri H.O.P. Mathur for the petitioner. ***** BY THE COURT:- This writ petition has been filed against the order dated 11/12/2008 whereby application of the petitioner dated 11/11/2008 seeking appointment on compassionate ground was rejected considering the fact that he was adopted vide adoption deed dated 7/3/2009 whereas death of the deceased employee took place on 5/4/2007. Respondents did not accept the adoption because in the adoption deed, it was stated that the adoption actually took place when the petitioner was only five years old but it finalised immediately before the death of the concerned employee and further in view of the provisions SBCWP NO.7564/09. 2 contained in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, petitioner was not entitled to be appointed on compassionate ground. Respondents in view of this feature of the present case and considering the fact that petitioner was major at the time of adoption, did not find the adoption deed in conformity with the law. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that when the petitioner has been awarded succession certificate, he should be held entitlted to receive gratuity of the deceased employee, therefore, he should have been considered eligible for appointment on compassionate ground. Mere succession certificate would not justify the nominee to receive gratuity and further to claim appointment on compassionate ground. Aims and objects of the relevant rules for compassionate appointment are to give compassionate appointment to the genuine claimant in terms thereof and if the respondents did not accept the adoption deed as valid because of the provisions contained in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, I find no illegality in the action of the respondents. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. (MOHAMMAD RAFIQ), J. anil