IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16039 of 2007 1. KIRAN JHA, wife of late Dev Narayan Jha of village Sonbersa, P.S. Bihpur district Bhagalpur 2. Vandana Kumari, daughter of late Dev Narayan Jha of village Sonbersa, P.S. Bihpur, District Bhagalpur … Petitioners Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 2. The D.G. cum I.G. of Police, Bihar, Patna 3. The D.M. Purnia 4. The D.I.G. of Police, Purnia Range, Purnia 5. The S.P., Purnia … Respondents ----------- 2. 13.4.2011 No one appears for the petitioners. Counsel for the State is present. The claim of petitioner no.1 for her own appointment on compassionate ground has been rejected on the ground that her plea of being second wife of the deceased employee in the life time of the first wife was unsustainable in law, inasmuch as under Hindu Law there would be no validity of second marriage. Consequently petitioner no.1 was not held to be the wife of the deceased employee and her case was rejected. Subsequently petitioner no.1 came out with a case for appointment of her daughter but then the authorities have found that her daughter also was not eligible being a married daughter. The Government 2 policy in fact prescribes only an unmarried daughter eligible for being considered for appointment on compassionate ground. Consequently even if it be held that the married daughter of petitioner no.1 Vandana Jha was receiving family pension, she could not have been appointed after her marriage. That being so, this application for a direction for appointment of either the petitioner no.1 or her married daughter Vandana Jha is wholly misconceived and is, accordingly, dismissed. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/