IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Civil Review No. 35 of 2011 Date of decision: April 19, 2011 Chief General Manager, Telecom Petitioner Versus Sanjeev Kumar Chauhan Respondent Coram The Hon’ble Mr.Justice Kurian Joseph, Chief Justice The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjay Karol, Judge For the Petitioner: Mr. Ashok Thakur, vice Mr. Sandeep Sharma, Advocate For the Respondent: ______________________________________________________ Justice Kurian Joseph, C.J. This is a petition seeking review of the judgment, dated 6th December, 2010 in CWP No. 2383 of 2010. The main contention is that the writ petition is not maintainable since the jurisdiction is that of the Central Administrative Tribunal. We do not have any quarrel with that proposition. But, in the interest of justice, we are compelled to make an observation that the sole request of the writ petitioner was only for a direction to take a decision on his request for his appointment on compassionate ground. This court only directed the review petitioner to take decision in accordance with law and justice in the matter within a month from the date of production of the copy of the judgment. Hence, we do not think that the petition should be relegated on that ground at 2 this stage since that issue was not before the court at the time when the writ petition was disposed of. Therefore, making it clear that jurisdiction lies before the Central Administrative Tribunal, yet in the interest of justice, we deem it fit to dismiss the review petition maintaining the order passed by this court to take a decision in the case of the writ petitioner on his request for compassionate appointment, but within one month from today. The review petition is disposed of, so also the pending applications, if any. ( Justice Kurian Joseph ), Chief Justice April 19, 2011 (K) ( Justice Sanjay Karol ), Judge