IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5837 of 2009 AMAR KUMAR son of late Bhuneshwar Mahto resident of village Thahra Gopalpur Police Station Pusa, District-Samastipur. ……………… Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through District Magistrate, Darbhanga 2. The Engineer in Chief Tube well Department Bihar, Patna. 3. The Joint Secretary Tubewell Department Bihar, Patna 4. The Chief Engineer Darbhanga Pramandal Darbhanga. 5. The Executive Engineer Tubewell Division Darbhanga 6. The Sub-Divisional officer, Tube Well Division Baheri, Darbhanga. ……………… Respondents --------- 2 11.05.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The only grievance of the petitioner in this writ application is with regard to appointment on compassionate ground on a plea that his father had died in harness on 21.1.2008. It is the case of the petitioner that he had already filed his application in the prescribed performa on 4.10.2008 and therefore when a period of more than seven months have already expired the respondents considering the object of compassionate appointment should have 2 taken a final decision. This Court would not like to express any opinion on such submission of the counsel for the petitioner but then taking into consideration that the very object of the compassionate appointment of mitigating hardship to the family members of the deceased employee would be frustrated on account of delay in taking a final decision, it must observe that a duty is cast upon the authority to take a final decision at least within a period of six months from the date of filing of such application. That being so, this Court would direct the concerned respondents to take a final decision as with regard to appointment of the petitioner on compassionate ground after obtaining prior recommendation/approval of concerned compassionate Appointment Committee expeditiously and preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. With the aforementioned observations and directions this writ application is finally disposed of. Bibhash (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.) 3