IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 2758 of 2009 Between: 1 Velaga Annapurna, D/o. late Narayana Rao, R/o. Payakaraopet Visakhapatnam District. 2 Kollabathula Lova Raju, S/o. Late Latchanna R/o. Payakaraopet, Visakhapatnam District. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND The Thandava Cooperative Sugars Limited, payakaraopet, Visakhapatnam District, rep by its Managing Director. .....RESPONDENT 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 declaring the inaction on the part of the respondents in not considering the petitioners cases for appointment on compassionate ground as illegal, arbitrary and violative of Art, 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to consider the cases of the petitioners for appointment on compassionate ground forthwith Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.V.V.N.NARAYANA RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.S.CHAKRAPANI The Court made the following : ORDER This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners who are two in number assailing the action of the respondent in not considering their applications for appointment on compassionate grounds. It is the case of the petitioners that father of the 1st petitioner died on 12.12.2004 whereas father of the 2nd petitioner died on 7.7.2005 while working as Mazdoor and Khalasi respectively in the respondent sugar factory. They submitted applications seeking compassionate appointments. There being no response to their applications, they approached this Court invoking the jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. When the writ petition came up for admission, Sri S.Chakrapani, learned standing counsel of Thandava Co-operative Sugars Limited received notice on behalf of the respondent. The limited grievance of the petitioners is that their applications seeking compassionate appointments have not been considered by the respondent. In that view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondent to consider the applications of the petitioners for compassionate appointments in accordance with the scheme if any, in force, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs. __________ 20-02-2009 Note: Issue CC by two days. (B.O) rkk