WPSS No.760 of 2001 Hon’ble Tarun Agarwala, J. Heard Sri Tumul Nailwal, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri Bhagwat Mehra, Advocate for the respondent. The petitioner’s father was working on the post of D.G. Set Operator in the respondent’s department and died in harness on 27.03.1996. The petitioner applied for appointment on compassionate ground on account of the financial crises, which fell upon him upon the death of his father. The petitioner’s application for compassionate appointment was rejected by an order dated 28th October, 2000 against which the present writ petition has been filed. A perusal of the impugned order indicates that no reason has been assigned as to why the petitioner’s application has been rejected. Consequently, the court finds that the impugned order has been passed without any application of mind and without giving any cogent reason which cannot be sustained and is hereby quashed. The petition is allowed. The matter is remitted to the authority to re-decide the petitioner’s application by a reasoned and speaking order within six weeks from the date of production of the certified copy of this order. (Tarun Agarwala, J.) Dated 06.05.2010 LSR