Jitender Kumar S/O Late Sri Rajendra ... vs Union Of India Through Its Secretary ... on 27 July, 2012
This Court as early as in the decision reported in Life Insurance Corporation of India v. Asha Ramchandra Ambekar (Mrs.) & Anr., JT 1994 (2) SC 183 ; (1994) 2 SCC 718 held that the courts cannot direct appointments on compassionate grounds dehors the provisions of the scheme in force governed by rules/regulations/instructions. If in a given case, the department of the government concerned declines, as a matter of policy, not to deviate from the mandate of the provisions underlying the scheme and refuses to relax the stipulation in respect of ceiling fixed therein, the courts cannot compel the authorities to exercise its jurisdiction in a particular way and that too by relaxing the essential conditions, when no grievance of violation of substantial rights of parties could be held to have been proved, otherwise.