India, March 7 -- Observing that the primary objective of compassionate appointment is to provide immediate relief to a bereaved family and prevent it from falling into destitution, the High Court of J&K and Ladakh has set aside its Single Bench order directing the government to appoint a man on such grounds, noting that the claim was made after a delay of eleven years.

A Division Bench of Justice Sindhu Sharma and Justice Shahzad Azeem allowed an appeal filed by the J&K administration and quashed the May 27, 2015 judgment.

The case arose after one- AR Sheikh, a Warder in the Prisons Department, died in harness on June 8, 1998. His son applied for compassionate appointment in 2009, about 11 years after his father's death, upon attainin...