IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 9470 of 2008 Between: Smt.Syeda Kudbanu Irfana W/o.Late Syed Mohd.Javeed Mehdi R/o.kachiguda, Hyderabad ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Chairman & Managing Director, APSRTC RTC X Roads, Musheerabad,Hyderabad 2 The Regional Manager, APSRTC,O/o.Regional Manager, Hyderabad City Region, Jubilee Bus STation Hyderabad .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus to direct the respondents to consider the representations dated 8.5.2007 and 30.7.2007 for compassionate appointment of the petitioner and declare the action of respondents in not considering the case for compassionate appointment as bad illegal, arbitrary, unconstitutional. Counsel for the Petitioner:MS.S.ANURADHA Counsel for the Respondents: K.MADHAVA REDDY(SC FOR APSRTC) The Court made the following : ORDER: The husband of the petitioner, by name late Syed Mohd.Javeed Mehdi, was employed as a Driver, in the Phalaknuma Depot of APSRTC. He died on 06.04.2007, on account of the injuries received by him, in an accident, on 05.04.2007. The petitioner submitted an application on 08.05.2007 to the respondents with a prayer to provide employment to her, on compassionate grounds. The grievance of the petitioner is that no action has been taken thereon and she submits that on account of the sudden death of her husband, the family is left in penury. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned standing counsel for the respondents. While the petitioner asserts that the scheme for providing employment on compassionate grounds to the dependants of employees, who died while in service, is in vogue, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents submits that it has since been replaced through a scheme of offering monetary benefit over and above the death-cum-retirement benefits of the employees. The petitioner submitted application way back on 08.05.2007. Nearly one year has elapsed. The application cannot be kept pending indefinitely. The petitioner must be informed as to the nature of her entitlement according to the scheme that is prevalent in the Corporation, as of now. The Writ Petition is disposed of, directing the respondents to consider the application submitted by the petitioner and pass appropriate orders thereon, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ Dt.01.05.2008 L.NARASIMHA REDDY, J GJ ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TRK}