India, Sept. 1 -- The Chhattisgarh High Court has directed a bank to grant compassionate appointments to two married daughters of deceased employees, observing that their marital status should not be treated as a disqualification when the bank's scheme makes no distinction between a married son and a daughter.

Rejecting the daughters' claims solely on marital status was arbitrary, discriminatory, and legally unsustainable in law, a division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal said in the order on July 30.

If marriage does not disqualify a son from being considered a dependent family member, the same principle must apply when assessing the case of a daughter, the HC noted. It held that denial of compass...