WRIT - A No. 8968 of 2023 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:49507-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8968 of 2023 Petitioner :- Union Of India , Thru. General Manager, North Eastern Railway , Gorakhpur And Others Respondent :- Central Administrative Tribunal Lucknow Bench Lucknow And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Dr. Ravi Kumar Mishra Counsel for Respondent :- Vijay Kumar Srivastava Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Hon'ble Manjive Shukla,J. Heard. By means of this petition, the petitioner i.e. the Union of India, has challenged the judgment and order dated 12.07.2023 passed in Original Application No. 332/00061/2020 by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Lucknow by which the claim of the opposite party no. 2 herein for compassionate appointment on Group C post with all consequential benefits has been allowed. The facts of the case in brief are that the father of the petitioner died in harness, just as the father of Ashok Kumar Pathak died in harness. Both, the opposite party no. 2 and one Ashok Kumar Pathak, were found fit for compassionate appointment on Group D post and were accordingly offered the appointment. In the medical examination, both of them were found fit for clerical post, as accepted by the p