IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWELVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION Nos.29575, 29960 and 31072 of 2011 WP.No.29575 of 2011: BETWEEN Koyada Hari Kumar. ... PETITIONER AND The Government of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary, Govt. of AP (Political), Secretariat, Hyderabad and two others ...RESPONDENTS WP.No.29960 of 2011: BETWEEN Chenghu Raghu. ... PETITIONER AND The Government of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary, Govt. of AP (Political), Secretariat, Hyderabad and two others ...RESPONDENTS WP.No.30172 of 2011: BETWEEN Datla Bhaskar. ... PETITIONER AND The Government of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary, Govt. of AP (Political), Secretariat, Hyderabad and two others ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. B.H.R. CHOUDARY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR GENERAL ADMIN. GP FOR HOME GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: COMMON ORDER: All these writ petitions are identical to WP.No.1400 of 2012, which is already heard and disposed of by this Court on 29.02.2012. 2. In all these writ petitions also, an order of rejection of petitioners’ applications respectively for compassionate appointment was passed by the competent authority on the ground that each of the petitioners was minor as on the date of death of the deceased – father/relative respectively. However, following the Division Bench judgment of this Court in W.A.No.69 of 2012 dated 23.02.2012, the impugned order of this nature is already set aside remitting the application of the petitioner for due consideration on merits and in accordance with law and policy of the State. In the circumstances, there shall be a similar direction in these writ petitions also, as under: “The impugned orders are set aside and the respondents/competent authority are directed to consider the case of the petitioners afresh on its own merits and on the basis of the Government Policy and the facts of each case and pass appropriate orders on merits in accordance with law within a period of three (3) months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.” The writ petitions are accordingly allowed. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J March 22, 2012 DSK