IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.994 of 2009 2 15.9.2009 Ganesh Kumar Mahto son of Late Yogendra Mahto Resident of Village- Mow Dhaneshpur North, Police Station- Vidyapati Nagar, District Samastipur ..... Petitioner .. Appellant VERSUS 1. The State of Bihar through Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna 2. The District Magistrate, Samastipur 3. The Superintendent of Police, District Samastipur 4. The Office-in-Charge, Vidyapati Ngar Police Station, District Samastipur ..... Respondents .. Respondents ------- For the Appellant : Mr Zeyaul Hoda, Advocate For the State : M/s Ramchandra Pd. Bharti, SC 14 Ajay Kumar and Sadanand Paswan, ACs to SC 14 ------- Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned counsel for the State. As per submissions, a young minor brother of the appellant unfortunately died on account of exchange of firing between two groups of criminals. The appellant prayed for compensation as provided by the State of Bihar through its policy decision contained in a circular bearing memo no.25 dated 12.1.2001 (Annexure-6 to the writ petition). The Writ Court found that the claim for compassionate appointment and monetary benefit was not supported by the said policy decision because such claim 2 was confined to only limited variety of cases such as attack by the terrorists or carnage on caste considerations or relating to election dispute. One of the clauses meant for other type of clashes provides some monetary benefit only if in view of special circumstances the Chief Minister has made a declaration of granting monetary help in a particular incident. That clause is also not applicable and hence, the said circular does not help the appellant. We do not find any infirmity in the order of the Writ Court. This appeal is, therefore, dismissed. (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.) (Jyoti Saran, J.) sk