GUWAHATI, India, Jan. 12 -- Gauhati High Court issued the following order on Dec. 11:
1. In these set of writ appeals, the State has challenged the judgment of the learned Single Judge dated 30.01.2023 passed in analogous writ petitions, the lead case being WP(C) No.1646/2021, striking down Clause 1 of the Office Memorandum dated 01.06.2015, which imposed an eligibility cut-off for compassionate appointment, namely, that the dependants of a deceased Government employee who died in harness, would not be entitled to compassionate appointment if the deceased Government employee had less than 3(three) years of service remaining at the time of his death.
2. The offending Clause 1 of the Office Memorandum dated 01.06.2015 is being extracted he...