HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 13532 of 2025 Court No. - 4 HON'BLE AJIT KUMAR, J. 1. Heard Shri Satyendra Chandra Tripathi, learned counsel for petitioner and learned Standing Counsel. 2. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution petitioner has prayed for a direction to the District Magistrate concerned to consider the claim of the petitioner for compassionate appointment for her father dying in harness in the year 2020 while working in respondent establishment. 3. It is contended that at the time of death of father of petitioner she was minor and hence she could not move any application and now after attaining the age of majority in the year 2025 she has come to move an application dated 18.06.2025 and in respect of which recommendation has also been made on 28.07.2025 by the Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue), Moradabad but till date no decision has been taken. 4. Learned Standing Counsel submits that the District Magistrate is the competent authority and he may be directed to consider the grievance of the petitioner and claim as well for compassionate appointment. 5. In view of the above, this petition stands disposed of with the direction to the District Magistrate, Moradabad to take a final decision in the matter of appointment of the petitioner on compassionate basis in view of the application made by her on 18.7.2025 and the recommendation made in Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Satyendra Chandra Tripathi, Shiv Poojan Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Princy Bhatnagar .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) that regard by the Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue) on 28.07.2025 in the light of the judgment of the Supreme Court the case of State of West Bengal v. Debabrata Tiwari and others (2025) 5 Supreme Court Cases 712, positively within a period of two months of production of certified copy of this order. It is further directed that in the event petitioner's claim is found to be rightful and genuine, she would be offered compassionate appointment within a further period of one month. September 10, 2025 Nadeem WRIA No. 13532 of 2025 2 (Ajit Kumar,J.) Digitally signed by :- NADEEM AHMAD High Court of Judicature at Allahabad