WP(C) 1854/2010 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE B.K. SHARMA Heard Mr. S. Sarma, learned counsel for the petitioner as well a s Ms. R. Chakraborty, learned State Counsel. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for a direction to the respondents to consider his case for appointment on compassiona te ground. The prayer so made is on account of death of his father while in serv ice on 24.12.1996. His father was serving as Forester Grade-II. Long 15 years ha ve gone by since then. The petitioner had earlier approached this Court by filin g writ petition being Civil Rule No. 4874/1998 and the same was disposed of on 2 3.12.1998 with certain directions towards consideration of the case of the petit ioner. According to the petitioner, when the case of the petitioner was not cons idered in his favour, once again he approached this Court by filing writ petitio n being WP(C) No. 4830/2000. The writ petition was dismissed for non-prosecution on 21.11.2003 and thereafter the petitioner filed Misc. Case No. 739/2009 seeki ng restoration of the writ petition. This application for restoration of the wri t petition was filed after 6 years of dismissal of the writ petition. The said M isc. Case was also dismissed on 18.3.2009. The petitioner has chosen not to anne x the copies of the orders passed in the writ petition and Misc. Case. Needless to say that compassionate appointment is not a source o f recruitment. Needless also to say that there cannot endless compassion. Long 1 5 years have gone by since the father of the petitioner died. Compassionate appo intment is provided to redeem a family in distress. If a considerable period of time got lapsed normally a presumption is drawn that the family without the sole bread earlier could survive. For all the aforesaid reasons, I do not find any merit in the wr it petition and accordingly it is dismissed.