WRIT - A No. 16747 of 2024 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 16747 of 2024 Sonu Nagar …..Petitioner(s) Versus The General Manager, …..Respondent(s) Punjab National Bank and others Counsel for Petitioners(s) : Mr. Virendra Singh, Advocate Counsel for Respondent(s) : Mr. Ashok Shankar Bhatnagar, Advocate for the Punjab National Bank Court No. - 49 HON’BLE J.J. MUNIR, J. The petitioner’s claim for compassionate appointment has been rejected by the respondents, the officers of the Punjab National Bank1, and the petitioner thinks that they have done so arbitrarily, committing a manifest error of law. He assails the decision of the Bank to refuse his application for compassionate appointment on account of his father’s death in harness. The petitioner has challenged various orders and resolutions passed by the officers and Committees of the Bank, declining his claim, to which a moreful allusion would be made later in this judgment. 2. The petitioner’s father served the Indian Army, which he left upon his retirement from service. He availed the benefit of being an ex- serviceman and was appointed as an Armed Guard with the Bank on 1 ‘Bank’ for short WRIT - A No. 16747 of 2024 -2- of 18 16.12.2014.