‘Recover ₹1 lakh from officials who delayed compassionate appointment’
The Hindu
Money should be paid to the applicant, orders HC
The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the State government to recover costs of ₹1 lakh from salaries of officials who did not consider a plea for compassionate appointment made way back in 1998 and ordered that the money be paid to the applicant. Justice R. Mahadevan passed the order while disposing of a writ petition pending in the court since 2016. The judge also directed the government to consider the petitioner’s request for compassionate appointment since her father, a government schoolteacher, had died in harness in 1998. Representing the writ petitioner T. Aruljothi, her counsel K. Selvaraj told the court that her father M. Tamilarasu was serving as a post graduate assistant in a government higher secondary school. He died on February 2, 1998 leaving behind his wife, two daughters and one son. The petitioner before the court was his second daughter.
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