Married Daughter Can Claim Parent’s Job
The Karnataka high court ruled that married daughters, too, are entitled (allowed) to get employment on compassionate grounds.
Ashok Adiveppa Madivalar was working as a Secretary in the office of Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee in Belagavi district, Karnataka and died in 2016 while in service. His married daughter Bhuvaneswari Puranik then applied for the job on compassionate grounds in 2017 as her brother, working in a private firm, chose not to seek a government job.
The daughter filed a case in the Karnataka High Court after her application was rejected by the Joint director of Department of Agriculture Marketing claiming that married daughters cannot claim their father's job.
The Karnataka high court ruled that married daughters, too, are entitled to get employment on compassionate grounds. The court said that daughters when married do not cease to be part of the family after marriage.
The court ordered the government to consider Bhuvaneswari Puranik's appeal for a job in one of its departments.
The order also said, “If the marital status of a son does not make any difference in law for seeking appointment on compassionate grounds, then the marital status of a daughter too should make no difference. Law cannot make an assumption that married sons alone continue to be a part of the family.”
