IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.10520 of 2006 SUNITA DEVI, wife of late Krishnandan Chaudhary, resident of village-Kopin, P.O. Biju Bigha, Police Station- Sitamarhi,District- Nawadah. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR (through Commandant)Mountaining Military Police Office, Arrah in Bihar. 2. The Commandant/Superintendent of Mountaining Military Police Office, Arrah,Bihar. ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Sudarshan Sharma,Advoate For the State: Mr. Ranjeet Kumar Pandey A.C. to G.P.19 --- 2. 10.4.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner has filed the writ petition in the year 2006 for appointment on compassionate ground on the death of her husband on 5.8.2002 during service in the Mounted Military Police. The case of the petitioner is that after filing of her application when no action was taken by the respondent-authorities, she sent a legal notice by registered post mentioning all the facts including the filing of the application for compassionate appointment before the Commandant/ Superintendent of Police, Mounted Military Police, Arrah. Thereafter, no action being taken, the petitioner approached this Court. In the counter affidavit, the stand taken is that the petitioner has never filed an application for appointment on compassionate ground. In reply to the counter affidavitd it is stated that when the petitioner received reply on 30.8.2006 to the legal notice sent by her earlier, she again filed her application for compassionate appointment along with the necessary documents, but the receipt of the 2 same was not granted. When the petitioner came to know from the counter affidavit the stand taken therein that the petitioner has not filed any application or document, she again sent an application along with documents on 2.8.2007 by registered post with a copy to respondent No.2 personally delivered in the office, for which again no receipt was granted. The necessary evidence regarding the same has been annexed as Annexure-3 in reply to the counter- affidavit. In the aforesaid circumstances, the writ application is disposed of with a direction to the respondent-authorities to consider and dispose of the application of the petitioner for appointment on compassionate ground within a period of four months from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.)