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Petition DismissedShivprakash v. State of Rajasthan & Ors.
2026:RJ-JD:49963
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 5322/2017
- Court
- Rajasthan High Court
- Date of Decision
- 12 October 2026
- Bench
- Justice Bipin Gupta
- Relevant Acts & Sections
- Constitution of India — Article 226 (compassionate appointment; adoption)
Final Outcome
Writ petition dismissed; no illegality found in the denial of compassionate appointment; pending applications disposed of (paras 10-11).
Source Rajasthan High Court, hcraj.nic.in — order dated 12.10.2026
Key holdings
- A 2002 school certificate naming the natural father undercut the claim of a 1996 adoption (para 10).
- The widow’s affidavit that the adoption happened after the death was decisive (para 10).
- An adoption after the employee’s death confers no right to compassionate appointment by itself (para 10).
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Brief Facts
The petitioner sought compassionate appointment on the death of Jag Ram, an employee of the Police Department who died on 26.06.1997 (paras 1-2). He claimed that Jag Ram and his wife had adopted him on 15.03.1996, and pointed to an adoption deed registered on 31.05.2002 (paras 3-4). The respondents said he was never shown as a family member; the widow's affidavit stated that he was adopted only after Jag Ram's death; and his Secondary School Examination Certificate of 2002 named another man as his father (paras 6-7). They added that compassionate appointment is not an alternative mode of recruitment (para 8).
Court's Findings
The Court found that the petitioner's Secondary School Examination Certificate of 2002 records the name of his natural father, not the deceased employee, which does not support his claim to have been adopted in 1996 (para 10). The affidavit of the deceased's wife showed that he was not adopted during the deceased's lifetime but only in 2002, after the death (para 10). The material on record therefore did not establish an adoption during the employee's lifetime (para 10). An adoption made after the employee's death does not, by itself, confer any right to claim compassionate appointment on the basis of that adoption, so there was no illegality in the respondents' refusal (para 10).
Legal Principle
A person adopted after a government employee's death cannot, on that adoption alone, claim compassionate appointment as the deceased's dependant. A claim based on an earlier adoption must be proved by the record, and contemporaneous documents naming another father weigh against it (para 10).