‘Recover ₹1 lakh from officials who delayed compassionate appointment’

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.