ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal has been preferred from an order passed by the High Court of Uttaranchal on the writ petition filed by the respondents directing the b appellant to appoint the respondents under the dying in harness rules within a period of one month from the date of production of the certified copy of the High Court's order.

3. The High Court appears to have completely overlooked the arguments of the appellant. The appellant is a public sector undertaking being wholly owned by the State Government. It was declared a sick company by the c Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction under the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 on 21-8-1995. It is not in dispute that it continues to remain sick till today.

4. The respondent's father died while in employment with the appellant on 29-3-2001. The respondent's mother applied for a job for the respondent under the U.P. Recruitment of Dependents of Deceased Government Servants Rules, 1974 (hereinafter referred to as "the 1974 Rules"). The case of the C appellant, which was that although the 1974 Rules were extended to public sector companies by a government order on 31-8-1991, they did not apply