IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No 12887 of 2009 Awadhesh Kumar, son of late Ram Prasad Mahto, resident of village + PO – Knhaipur, P S – Mokama, District – Patna -Petitioner Versus 1 The Union of India through the Chairman, Bharat Wagon Engineering Company Limited, Mokama, now undertaken by Government of India 2 The Chairman, Bharat Wagon Engineering Company Limited, Head Office, Kolkata (West Bengal) 3 The Managing Director, Bharat Wagon Engineering Company Limited, Mokama, Patna 4 The General Manager, Bharat Wagon Engineering Company Limited, Mokama, Patna 5 The Secretary, Railway Department, Government of India, New Delhi -Respondents ----------- 2 05.10.2009 The petitioner seeks compassionate appointment in the Bharat Wagon Engineering Company Limited, a Government of India undertaking in which his father was working as a Gardener and died in harness. His mother had made an application for compassionate appointment of the petitioner. She has also died. Petitioner has relied on certain orders of this Court passed under similar circumstances. In my view, if an when the respondent Company decides to make appointment on compassionate grounds, they would be obliged to consider the claim of all pending applicants in order of seniority for the said purpose including that of the petitioner. With this observation, this writ petition is disposed of. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh)