Chandigarh, Nov. 3 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVNL) to pay Rs.7.5 lakh as compensation, along with 6% annual interest, to a petitioner whose applications for job on compassionate grounds were rejected twice. Pankaj Kumar had filed the plea in 2017 challenging the rejection orders which were issued in March 2004 and October 2015.

The petitioner's father, who joined UHBVNL in April 1977 as an assistant lineman, became 100% disabled on June 2, 1999, at the age of 45 after suffering an electric shock while working on a 25-foot pole. He was subsequently retired on medical grounds with effect from September 6, 2000, based on the assurance that his son would be considered for...