Muktabai Narsaiyya Yengupatla and Another v. the State of Maharashtra through Its Secretary and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Aurangabad Bench; WRIT PETITION No. 4249 of 2024; decided 02.04.2026 by NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI and VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV, JJ. (per court). Mother and differently abled brother of deceased police constable Anil Narsaiyya Yengupatla (died in service 09.12.2019) sought writ of prohibition against compassionate employment to the deceased's widow (respondent No. 3) and removal of her name from the waiting list. Court held petitioners had no legal right to deny the widow compassionate employment; petitioner No. 2 is a major and must earn for himself and his mother; reliefs misconceived. Petition dismissed. Keywords: compassionate employment, writ of prohibition, widow, dependent family member, differently abled, waiting list, Maharashtra.
What did the court decide?
The petitioners have no legal right to claim that the wife of the deceased should be denied compassionate employment.