CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.19380 OF 2008 :{ 1 }: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH DATE OF DECISION: FEBRUARY 23 ,2011 Balwinder Kumar .....Petitioner VERSUS Food Corporation of India, New Delhi and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Deepak Thapar, Advocate, for Mr. P. S. Kahlon, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Hari Pal Verma, Advocate, for the respondents. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. (ORAL) Father of the petitioner, Sh.Ram Kumar, was working with the Food Corporation of India. He expired on 26.2.2005. The petitioner accordingly filed an application for appointment on compassionate ground. He has not been offered any appointment as no post of Class IV was available. The application of the petitioner was rejected on the ground that more than three years have elapsed and as such, the petitioner's name can not be kept for consideration. After hearing learned counsel for the parties, counsel for respondent-FCI was directed to file an affidavit to place on record the CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.19380 OF 2008 :{ 2 }: information that no person was appointed within 3 years from the date the petitioner's name was kept in the roster. Affidavit has now been filed, where inter-alia it is averred that no post of Class IV employee became available in the respondent-Corporation for compassionate appointment and the name of the petitioner was placed at roster/seniority at SL No.1319 in the year 2005, as maintained by the Zonal Office. It is further stated that no appointment on compassionate ground has been given by the respondent-Corporation after the placement of the petitioner in the roster. Rather, counsel for the respondents submits that no appointment to any one on compassionate ground has been offered after the year 2000. In this view of the matter, no case for issuing any direction in the present case is made out. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. February 23,2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) khurmi JUDGE