CWP (T) No.9274 of 2008. 15.12.2009. Present: Mr. Bimal Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. R.K. Sharma, Senior Addl. Advocate General, with Mr. J.K. Verma and Mr. Anil Jaswal, Dy. Advocate Generals, for the respondent-State. Petitioner’s father died in harness on 26.8.1997. Petitioner had submitted an application seeking appointment on compassionate grounds. The same was rejected by the competent authority on 19.8.2002. According to the reply filed by the respondents, the case of the petitioner did not fall in the parameters laid down in the policy/guidelines framed by the State Government. The objective of granting appointment on `compassionate grounds is to permit the family to tide over the crisis immediately after the death of the bread earner. In the present case the petitioner’s father has died on 26.8.1997. Petitioner’s family has been paid retiral benefits. We are of the considered view that in the present case, no direction can be issued to the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner afresh. The father of the petitioner was died in the year 1997 and we are at the fag end of 2009. In these circumstances, the present petition is dismissed on the ground of delay and laches as well as on the ground that the petitioner’s family has been granted retiral benefits. (R.B. Misra), ACJ. 15th December, 2009. (Rajiv Sharma), J. (tr)