IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 19486 of 2008 Between: T.Uma Maheswara Rao S/o. Late Rama Krishna C/o. Gaddam Rama Swamy, H.No. 32-1-63, New Paloncha Khammam District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 A.P.Power Generation Corporation Ltd., Vidyutsoudha, Khairathabad, Hyderabad - 82, Rep. by its Managing Director. 2 The Joint Secretary ( Personnel), A.P.Genco. Ltd., vidyothsoudha, Khairathabad, hyderabad -82. 3 The Chief Engineer ( O&M), Kothagudem Thermal Power Station, A.P.Genco. Ltd., Paloncha, khammam district. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue any appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents No.2 and 3 in rejecting the petitioner's case for compassionate appointment vide Lr.No. CE/O&M/KTPS/ Adm/B.4/ D.No. 124/08, dated 04.02.2008 and the action of the 1st respondent is not disposing of the petitioner's appeal dated 03.06.2008 as arbitrary, illegal, and violative of Article 14, 16 and 21 of the constitution of India and consequently direct the 1st respondent to provide compassionate appointment to the petitioner by relaxing the minimum age by 2 months by considering the petitioner's appeal dated 03-06-2008 for and pass such other orders of as may be just. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.CHANDRAIAH SUNKARA Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.K.CHIDAMBARAM(SC FOR AP GENCO) The Court made the following : ORDER This writ petition is ﬁled seeing a Mandamus to declare the action of the 2nd and 3rd respondents in rejecting the case of the petitioner for compassionate appointment, vide letter dated 4.2.2008 and inaction on the part of the 1st respondent in not disposing of the appeal ﬁled by him on 3.6.2008, as arbitrary, illegal and violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution of India. It appears that father of the petitioner viz., T.Rama Krishna died in harness on 28.1.2006, while working as a Watchman in the oﬃce of DE/Gen1/KTPS ‘A’ Station, Paloncha, Khammam District. Therefore, the petitioner, who passed SSC, applied for a job on 15.12.2006, under compassionate grounds, by enclosing the death and legal heir certiﬁcates. His mother also made an application on 21.12.2006 requesting to provide age relaxation of four months to the petitioner, as she is an uneducated woman and is not in a position to undertake any type of employment and the other two children are also minors. According to the petitioner, his application before the 2nd and 3rd respondents was rejected. Aggrieved thereby, he ﬁled an appeal before the 1 st respondent on 3.6.2008. According to the petitioner, as per the scheme evolved by the Corporation, he is entitled for being considered to a suitable employment under compassionate grounds. In view of the above, without expressing any opinion on merits, the 1st respondent is directed to dispose of the appeal purported to have been ﬁled by the petitioner on 3.6.2008, being aggrieved by the rejection order passed by the 2nd and 3rd respondents, and pass appropriate orders, as per law, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioner. Writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. __________ 08-09-2008 rkk