WPSS No.1750 of 2007 Hon’ble Tarun Agarwala, J. Heard Sri Sidhartha Sah, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri Subhash Upadhyaya, Brief Holder for the State. List has been revised. No one appears for the respondent no.1. The petitioner’s husband was working on a Class-IV post in the Nagar Palika Parishad, Rudrapur and died in harness on 21.12.2006. The petitioner applied for appointment on compassionate ground on account of the financial crises, which fell upon her upon the death of her husband. This application was kept pending, and consequently, the petitioner was constrained to approach this writ court seeking a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to decide her application for appointment on compassionate ground under the Dying in Harness Rules. Respondent no.1, Nagar Palika Parishad, Rudrapur has filed a counter affidavit stating therein that the application of the petitioner has been forwarded to respondent no.2 (Nideshak, Shahari Vikas Nideshalaya) for appropriate direction. The respondent no.2 in its counter affidavit has stated that the appointing authority is the Executive Officer of the Nagar Palika and that respondent no.1 is alone competent to decide the matter. In view of the shuttle cock approach of the respondents of putting the ball in someone else’s court, a writ of mandamus is issued to respondent no.1, namely, Executive Officer of Nagar Palika Parishad, Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar to decide the petitioner’s application for appointment on compassionate ground under the Dying in Harness Rules within a period of six weeks from the date of production of the certified copy of this order. Writ petition is disposed of accordingly. (Tarun Agarwala, J.) Dated 26.02.2010 LSR