P&H: Rejects Compassionate Assistance Claim Over Employee Missing Since 1995 as 3 years service required for grant
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a plea by Anita Rani and her son seeking compassionate financial assistance after her husband, a government school teacher, went missing in 1995. Justice Nidhi Gupta held that the Haryana Compassionate Assistance Rules of 2006 did not apply to their case because the employee disappeared before those Rules came into force.
The petitioners said Ishwar Singh went missing on 20 September 1995 and that his wife reported his disappearance a week later. They argued that the family was entitled to assistance under the 2006 Rules and challenged the authorities’ rejection of their...
