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Therefore, the Bench held that a cousin cannot be included within the definition of \u2018member of family\u2019 under the APS Rules,1999. Hence, the petitioner was not entitled to preferential appointment in Assam Public Services as per the provisions of the rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Jackie Rabha v. Principal Secretary to the Govt of Assam, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/2Ot2cg0Q\"><strong>2022 SCC OnLine Gau 1074<\/strong><\/a><strong>, decided on- 18-07-2022] <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>For the Petitioner:<\/strong> MD B Islam, Advocate<br \/>\n<strong>For the Respondent:<\/strong> GA, Assam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauhati High Court: The single Bench of Michael Zothankhuma, J., disposed of the writ petition and held that a cousin cannot be <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":269622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[6111,44518,50464,5181,28744,12431,43804,11801,29785,50462,50463,5941],"class_list":["post-270644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-appointment","tag-assam-public-service","tag-assam-public-services-preferential-appointment-rules","tag-compassionate-appointment","tag-employment","tag-family-member","tag-gauhati","tag-high-court","tag-law","tag-martyr","tag-preferential-appointment","tag-service-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gauhati High Court| \u2018Cousin\u2019 not a family member; 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