A division bench of Tripura High Court has upheld a single-judge bench order that a married daughter who depends on her father’s income is eligible to get a government job if the father dies while in service.

The bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mohanty and Justice S.C. Chattopadhayay on Tuesday rejected the state government’s petition seeking a review of the single bench’s order on the die-in-harness scheme.

The single-judge bench had earlier said that a married daughter who depends on her father’s income was eligible to get a government job under the die-in-harness scheme while hearing five separate writ petitions.

The state government had filed a petition before the division bench, seeking review of the single bench’s order. The division bench rejected the government’s plea, saying that depriving the married daughter from the die-in-harness benefit is against the spirit of the Constitution as well as gender parity.