AR. LAKSHMANAN, C. J.

( 1 ) HEARD Sri A. K. Jayaprakash Rao, the learned Counsel for the appellant and sri P. Nageswara Sree, the learned Counsel for the respondent. The unsuccessful writ petitioner is the appellant in this appeal. The writ petition was filed for a mandamus declaring the action of the respondent in proceedings dated 20-11-2001 refusing to consider the case of the appellant for appointment on compassionate ground, as illegal, unjust and contrary to law and to grant all consequential benefits.

( 2 ) THE case of the appellant is that her late husband joined the services of the respondent-Bank as watchman/attendar and had put in 17 years of service and that he was illegally dismissed from service by order dated 17-2-1994. Aggrieved by the said order of removal her husband filed an appeal before the appellate authority under section 48 of the A. P. Shops and establishments Act, 1988 (for short the Act ) which was numbered as S. E. 29 of 1994. During the pendency of the said appeal her husband died on 15-12-1995 and that the appellate authority allowed the appeal directing the respondent therein to provide suitable employment to the appellant and also directed payment o

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