HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI W.P. No. 17443 OF 2007 Thursday, the Eighth day of July, Two Thousand and Ten Between Smt. Mugudi Nagamani Petitioner AND The A.P. State Road Transport Corporation, Rep.by its Managing Director, Musheerabad, Hyderabad and others Respondents THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI W.P. NO. 17443 OF 2007 ORAL ORDER: The writ petitioner, who is widow of R.Rama Rao, a Mechanic in the respondent corporation, seeks a direction to the respondents to provide her suitable employment on compassionate grounds. The husband of the petitioner herein while working under the second respondent, died in harness on 23.2.2005 leaving behind the petitioner and four minor children, to which effect legal heir certificate dated 22.6.2007 is filed and, as such, the entire responsibility of nurturing the family fell on the petitioner. It is stated that since her representations to provide her employment went futile, she filed the present writ petition. On 14.8.2007, while issuing rule nisi, a learned Judge of this Court has directed the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for appointment on compassionate grounds on any suitable post. The respondent Corporation has filed counter affidavit stating that in view of the ban on the recruitments in terms of letter dated 5.3.2005 issued by the third respondent, except with the prior approval of the Government, the respondent Corporation has advised the petitioner to avail additional monetary benefit of Rs.1.00 lakh in lieu of employment, by their letter dated 4.4.2008. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in similar situation, a batch of writ petitions have been disposed of by a learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P. No. 26488 of 2006 and Batch dated 1.2.2008, directing the Principal Secretary, Transport, Roads and Buildings Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, to reconsider the whole issue and take an appropriate decision in consultation with the respondent Corporation, permitting the respondent Corporation to appoint/absorb the children/spouses of the employees who died in harness in any existing or future suitable vacancies, as per their eligibility, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of the said order and to communicate the same to the respondent Corporation as well as the petitioners therein. Learned Standing Counsel for the respondent Corporation, on instructions, had submitted that the said direction of this court had been implemented. Under the above circumstances, following the order dated 1.2.2008 passed a learned Single Judge of this court in WP No. 26488 of 2006 and Batch, this writ petition is also disposed of in terms thereof. No order as to costs. ________________________ Justice T. Meena Kumari July 8, 2010 MAS