The Madhya Pradesh High Court was hearing a plea of a son seeking compassionate appointment at Union Bank of India. (Image generated using AI) The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside a Union Bank of India (UBI) order that denied a compassionate appointment to the son of the employee who has passed away, and expressed surprise at how the bank weaponised the alleged unsatisfactory service record of the petitioner’s father to reject his claim. While hearing a plea of a late employee’s son, Justice Jai Kumar Pillai observed that dependents applying under such benevolent schemes are already battling severe penury and sudden financial destitution, subjecting them to mechanical, cryptic, or arbitrary rejections based on extraneous grounds not explicitly mentioned in the scheme, cruelly defeating the very objective of the welfare measure, and inflicting unwarranted harassment upon vulnerable citizens.…