IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16177 of 2009 VARUN KUMAR, SON OF LATE GOVIND SAO, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE SHRUGHANA, P.S. KAJRA, DISTRICT LAKHISARAI………………………..…….PETITIONER VERSUS 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE DIRECTOR, SECONDARY EDUCATION, BIHAR, PATNA 3. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, LAKHISARAI 4. THE DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER, LAKHISARAI 5. THE HEADMASTER, HIGH SCHOOL NAROTTAMPUR, KAJRA, P.S. KAJRA, DISTRICT LAKHISARAI…………………..RESPONDENTS ----------- 2. 10.03.2010 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to correct description of respondent no.2 in the cause title of the petition in course of the day. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. No one appears for the respondents. The case of the petitioner is that his father died in harness on 28.11.2007 while working on the post of peon in the High School, Narottampur, Kajra in the district of Lakhisarai. Petitioner immediately filed an application for his appointment on compassionate ground. His application was placed before the District Compassionate Appointment Committee and the Committee in its meeting dated 25.09.2008 resolved and recommended for appointment of the petitioner on class III post. The proceeding of - 2 - the Committee is annexed as Annexure-2 to the writ application. However, the said recommendation of the Committee has not been acted upon by the respondents although petitioner filed repeated representations as is evident from Annexures 3 and 4. Ultimately, petitioner has moved this Court. No one appears for the respondents to oppose the application. The proceeding of the District Compassionate Appointment Committee as contained in Annexure-2 shows that the Committee had recommended for appointment of the petitioner on class III post on compassionate ground. Therefore, the respondent - District Education Officer, Lakhisarai is directed to act upon the said recommendation of the Committee, if the same has not been rescinded till now, within a period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The writ application is disposed of with the aforesaid observations and directions. B.T (J. N. Singh, J.)