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Madras High Court Overturns Tamil Nadu Government’s Compassionate Appointments Decision

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Chennai, July 27 (IANS) The Madras High Court’s Madurai Bench on Monday set aside a Tamil Nadu government order granting compassionate appointments to the families of those who died in the September 2025 Karur stampede, ruling that the decision violated the constitutional principles of equality and equal opportunity in public employment. A division bench of Justice C.V. Karthikeyan and Justice R. Sakthivel held that compassionate appointments cannot be extended through executive discretion in …