The Madhya Pradesh High Court has restored a man’s compassionate appointment that was cancelled nearly three years after he joined government service in 2016 following his grandmother’s death. It held that the deceased employee’s daughter could not automatically claim precedence over her grandson, particularly when the authorities had considered his case before appointing him and found no fraud or deliberate suppression of facts.

Dealing with a man’s plea challenging the cancellation of his appointment order, Justice Anand Singh Bahrawat said the petitioner did not conceal his relationship with the deceased employee, who was his grandmother. The court noted that he placed his relationship and the circumstances of his family before the authorities when his application was considered.

“Merely because the intervener is the daughter of the deceased employee, her claim cannot automatically be treated as superior to that of the petitioner.…