Ashish Kumar v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Compassionate appointment; writ dismissed; ~20-year lapse since work-charge employee's death (2005); stale cause of action; mother's request for post-retirement benefits and son's compassionate appointment left undecided by Public Health Engineering Department, Bihar; reliance on Bhola Prasad Singh v. State of Bihar, CWJC No.18155 of 2014 (dt. 14.12.2022, Co-ordinate Bench, Patna HC) — referred, not followed; State of Bihar respondents; single Judge (Dr. Anshuman, J.), Patna High Court, decided 29-04-2025.
What did the court decide?
Weighing the circumstances that the demand for compassionate appointment developed only after the father's death — the petitioner's mother first demanding benefits for her dead husband and subsequently seeking her son's appointment some 20 years after the husband's death — the Court found no basis to grant relief.