Archive · 20 Aug 2026
Jharkhand High Court Grants Job to Married Daughter
A court in Jharkhand said a married daughter should receive her late father’s job through a special support rule.
The rule is meant to help families after a government employee dies.
The daughter lived with her old mother and did not have enough income to support them.
Her mother had donated a kidney to her husband.
The daughter’s brothers were not giving their mother financial support.
The daughter’s husband earned only a small income.
The court said being married does not automatically mean she was financially independent.
It found that she had depended on her father when he died.
The Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation was ordered to appoint her.
The Jharkhand High Court ordered the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation to appoint a deceased employee’s married daughter on compassionate grounds.
Justice Deepak Roshan found that the daughter had been wholly dependent on her father when he died.
The daughter was living with and supporting her elderly widowed mother, who had donated a kidney to her husband.
The court noted that the daughter’s brothers were not financially supporting their mother.
The court ruled that marriage and her husband’s meagre income did not disqualify the daughter because her dependency was established.
- Who
- The Jharkhand High Court, the deceased employee’s married daughter, her elderly mother, and the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation.
- What
- The court directed the organisation to appoint the married daughter on compassionate grounds.
- When
- The order was issued on August 12; the year was not specified.
- Where
- Jharkhand, India.
- Why
- The daughter was found to have been dependent on her late father and to lack an independent income while supporting her elderly mother.
- Court
- Jharkhand High Court
- Judge
- Justice Deepak Roshan
- Employer organisation
- Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation
- Relief granted
- Appointment on compassionate grounds
- Applicant’s status
- Married daughter of a deceased employee
- Family circumstances
- She lived with and was prepared to support her elderly widowed mother; her brothers were not financially supporting the mother.
- Order date
- August 12