Bengaluru: Karnataka high court has observed that compassionate appointment is a concession born of necessity, not a right born of relationship.
Its purpose is to rescue a dependent family from sudden destitution, not to perpetuate employment within a family by succession, a division bench of Justices M Nagaprasanna and Hema Kulkarni noted in its order passed on Oct 28 while allowing an appeal filed by state-owned Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (KKRTC). Veeresh Mantappa Lolasar, a KKRTC driver, died in harness on Sept 21, 2023. His mother, Mantavva, 65, requested KKRTC to provide compassionate appointment to Veeresh’s brother Sanganna.
The deceased employee having lost his wife during his lifetime and having left behind neither wife nor children, the mother and the brother were the surviving relations who looked to him for support.
The brother of the deceased also placed an affidavit undertaking to maintain and take care of the aged mother, the court was told. Veeresh’s wife had predeceased him and the couple had no children. Thereafter, the family approached the high court and the single bench ruled in the family’s favour and issued a direction to KKRTC to provide a suitable post to Sanganna, based on his educational qualification. On the other hand, the applicants submitted that the very soul of compassionate appointment lies in rescuing a family from the sudden financial catastrophe that follows the death of its breadwinner. Be respectful · TOI community guidelines