‘Married daughters can claim job on compassionate grounds’
Vasanth.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: 17.12.2020
The Karnataka HC has ruled that married daughters, too, are entitled to seek employment on compassionate grounds as they don’t cease to be part of the family after they enter wedlock.
“Half the world, and not even half a chance,” the court said on Tuesday about the plight of Bhuvaneswari V Puranik from Bengaluru, whose representation for a job on compassionate grounds was rejected because she is married. Her brother, working in a private company, chose not to seek a government job. The court also directed the government to consider the petitioner’s appeal for a job in one of its departments.
The petitioner’s father Ashok Adiveppa Madivalar, who worked as a secretary in the office of Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee at Kuduchi in Belagavi, died in 2016 while in service. His daughter’s application for a job on compassionate grounds in 2017 was rejected by the joint director (administration), department of agriculture marketing. Bhuvaneswari challenged the order in HC, contending it was discriminatory.
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