HIGH COURT NOVEMBER 2024 WEEKLY ROUNDUP | Stories on Louis Vuitton’s trademark, captive elephants in Kerala, Plastic Ban, and much more.
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
widowed daughter
Dependent widowed daughter is still daughter and falls within ambit of ‘dependent family’, eligible for compassionate appointment: Allahabad HC
“If a married son is eligible for compassionate appointment if he was dependent upon his father at the time of his death unless he had his own means of livelihood, then, there is no reason as to why a married daughter who is similarly placed, i.e., if she was dependent upon her father, should not be eligible for compassionate appointment under the aforesaid scheme.”
Calcutta High Court upholds widowed daughter’s right to family pension in Non-Government colleges
“The family pension scheme is socio-economic requirement of the Constitution of India which is a welfare State one and the object of introduction of the scheme of family pension is to assist the dependent of the deceased employee/pensioner or his/her family.”
Daughter gets divorced right after parent’s death. Can she claim compassionate appointment? SC explains
Supreme Court: In a case where a woman had sought compassionate appointment after her mother’s death in the year 2012, the bench