SHIVANAND vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

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$~94 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 4786/2022 SHIVANAND .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Sriparna Chatterjee, Mr. Soumitra Chatterjee, Ms. Manish and Ms. Mansi, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Neeraj, Sr. PC with Mr. Vedansh Anand, GP, Mr. Rudra Paliwal and Mr. Soumyadip Chakraborty, Advs. for UOI with Mr. Amit Kumar, CISF CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 13.08.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. We state, with a sense of satisfaction, that this is one case in which we are able to render grass roots social justice, which, at the end of the day, is the very raison d’ etre of the judicial institution. 2. The father of the petitioner, while working as Constable in the Secretariat Security Force1, died in harness on 26 March 2006. Following this, with due expedition, the petitioner’s mother applied for grant of compassionate appointment to the petitioner, who was 1 “SSF”, hereinafter Signature Not Verified W.P.(C) 4786/2022 Digitally Signed By:AJIT Page 1 of 17 KUMAR Signing Date:14.08.2025 17:46:23 then 17 ½ years of age, against one of the 19 vacancies earmarked in the SSF for being filled by compassionate appointment, on 4 October 2006. In her application, she specifically prayed that the petitioner be granted compassionate appointment after he had attained the age of 18. 3. The application languished with the respondents for six years. In the interregnum, the 13 vacancies which were available for compassionate appointment in the SSF were transferred to the Central Industrial Security Force2. 4. The CISF wrote to the petitioner on 28 December 2012 as under: “OFFICE MEMORANDUM Sub: Appointment of the dependents of deceased SSF personnel/Reception Officers in CISF o