IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.12884 of 2006 RAJIB NANDAN son of late Bhola Jha, resident of Village Nagdah, P.S.Begusarai Muffasil, District Begusarai-------------------------petitioner Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Secretary-cum- Commissioner, Human Resource Department, Patna 2.The District Superintendent of Education, Begusarai 3.The District Education Officer, Begusarai-respondents ----------- For the petitioner :Mr.Ashok Kumar Mishra,Advocate For the State :Mr.Rajanikant Mishra,AC to GP X ---- 2. 30.4.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks appointment on compassionate ground on account of the death of his mother while in service on the post of Assistant Teacher in Middle School, Harakh. The admitted position is that the petitioner is the adopted son and has even received the family pension till the year 1995. However, his case was rejected by order dated 8.2.1997 (Annexure-3) passed by the District Superintendent of Education, Begusarai on the ground that there is no provision for appointment of adopted son on compassionate ground. Learned counsel for the State submits that the writ application has been filed more than nine and a half years after the said order of rejection and for the said reason it 2 is not maintainable, particularly in the case of compassionate appointment. This Court finds sufficient force in the said contention of learned counsel for the State. The very purpose for appointment on compassionate ground is to meet the immediate financial crisis of the family of the deceased Government employee on account of the death of the sole bread earner. If the petitioner has been able to look after his family since 1997 for more than nine and a half years before approaching this Court against the order of rejection of his claim there can be no occasion for this Court to interfere in the matter in its writ jurisdiction and issue any order in his favour. In any view of the matter, since the death has taken place on 2.3.1994 and more than sixteen years have passed since then there can be no occasion for grant of any compassionate appointment to the petitioner at this belated stage. The writ application is, accordingly, dismissed. Spal/ (Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.)