IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.670 of 2011 1. Sobha Devi wife of Bisheshwar Nath Singh 2. Ajay Kumar Singh, son of Bisheshwar Nath Singh, Both residents of village-Sisai, P.O. Sisai via Tarwara, P.S. Goreakothi, District- Siwan…………. Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Bihar through Principal Secretary, Human Resources Development Department, Bihar, Patna. 2. The Director, Secondary Education, Bihar, Patna. 3. The District Makgistrate-cum- Collector, Siwan 4. The District Education Officer, Siwan. 5. The Headmaster, Rajendra High School Pahlejpur, At and P.O. Pahlejpur, District- Siwan……………. Respondents. ----------- For the petitioners: Mr. M.N. Parbat, Advocate Mr. Sanjay Kumar Jha, Advocate Mr. Praveen Prabhakar, Advocate For the State: Mr. Kundan Kumar, A.C. to S.C. I ------------ 2. 26.7.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners, mother and son, have approached this Court for a direction to the respondents to appoint petitioner no.2, the son, on compassionate ground. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the husband/ father of the petitioners, was suffering from ailment of mental sickness and was admitted at the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi on 9.7.2007, from where he suddenly disappeared and with respect to which an information was lodged with Kanke Police Station on 13.7.2007. It is further submitted by learned counsel that an application for appointment 2 on compassionate ground was also made on 10.10.2009, but no action has been taken in this regard. It is pointed out by learned counsel for the petitioners that by a Circular letter dated 31.10.2008 issued by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, it has been laid down that the appointment on compassionate ground can be made in the case of a Government servant who has disappeared after two years of his disappearance, but no decision has yet been taken by the respondent authorities. In the above circumstances, the writ application is disposed of with a direction to the competent authority, the District Compassionate Appointment Committee, Siwan to consider and dispose of the claim of petitioner No.2 within a period of four months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta, J. )