WRIT - A No. 2539 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 2539 of 2025 Bandana Singh .....Petitioner(s) Versus Union of India and 5 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Kamal Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : S.P. Singh, A.S.G.I., Manjari Singh Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. Heard Shri Kamal Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri S.P. Singh, learned A.S.G.I, assisted by Ms. Manjari Singh, learned counsel for the respondents. 2. This petition has been filed challenging the order dated 25.11.2024, whereby the Central Administrative Tribunal, Allahabad Bench, Allahabad (in short ‘the Tribunal’) has dismissed the Original Application No. 21 of 2020 (in short ‘O.A.’) filed by the petitioner. The said O.A. was filed with a prayer to quash the order dated 29.11.2019 passed by the Chief Postmaster General, U.P. Circle, Lucknow, whereby he had rejected the petitioner’s claim for compassionate appointment. 3. Brief facts of the case are that, on 29.02.2016, the petitioner’s mother Smt. Gayatri Singh died in harness while working on the post of Gramin Dak Sewak (in short ‘GDS’). The petitioner, b