WRIT - A No. 2001536 of 2009 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - A No. - 2001536 of 2009 Union Of India Thru G.M. Northern Railway And Ors. .....Petitioner(s) Versus Smt. Vidyawati W/O Late Rakesh Kumar And Anr. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Anil Srivastava, Brijesh Kumar Shukla, Nishant Shukla, P.K.Srivastava Counsel for Respondent(s) : Abhinav Trivedi, Chandra Shekhar Sinha, Krishna Srivastava Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE PRASHANT KUMAR, J. 1. Heard Shri Nishant Shukla, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Abhinav Trivedi, learned counsel for the opposite party no. 1. 2. This writ petition was filed in 2009 challenging an order dated 07.08.2009 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Lucknow in Original Application No. 52 of 2009; Smt. Vidyawati Vs. Union of India and Ors. quashing the order declining to appoint the opposite party on compassionate basis on a Class IV post purely considering the facts of the case. 3. The contention of the petitioners' counsel is that daughter-in-law did not fall within the definition of dependent family members for the purposes of compassionate appointment, however, we find that the Tribunal vide its judgment date