IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.15926 of 2006 RADHESHYAM PRASAD son of late Gourishankar Kushania, resident of village Kurmitola, P.S. Dhumnagar (Nautan) District- West Champaran ( Bettiah) Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. The Director of Agriculture, Bihar, Patna. 3. The Joint Agriculture Director, Tirhut Commissioner, Muzaffarpur 4. The Commissioner, Tirhut Divisioon, Muzaffarpur 5. The District Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran 6. The District Agriculture Officer, West Champaran at Bettiah 7. Sub Divisional Agricultural Officer, West Champaran. ….. …… Respondents. For the petitioner: Mr. Bharat Bhushan,Advocate For the State : Mr. Jainendra Kumar Sinha, A.C. to G.A. 10. ----------- 2. 29.3.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks appointment on compassionate ground on account of death of his father in harness on 28.6.1983. He claims to have filed his application for compassionate appointment on 5.1.1985 and again another application was filed on 20.5.1997, which has been rejected by order dated 4.10.2006. Whatever may be the merit in the case of the petitioner or the laches on the part of the authorities of the State in the matter but the fact remains that the deceased employee had died on 28.6.1983, i.e., nearly 27 years from today and nearly 23 years prior to the rejection of his application. - 2 - It is evident, in view of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of Umesh Kumar Nagpal vs. State of Haryana and others: 1994 (4) SCC 138, that the petitioner cannot be granted any compassionate appointment since the whole purpose for grant of compassionate appointment is to meet the financial crisis of the family of the deceased employee, which it faces at the time of the death of the sole bread-earner. If the family has survived for nearly 27 years since the death of its bread-earner, there is no occasion even to consider the case of appointment on compassionate ground at this belated stage. This writ application is, accordingly, dismissed. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J. )