( 1 ) QUESTIONING the action of the respondents-Corporation in not considering the case of the petitioner for appointment as conductor on compassionate ground under bread Winner Scheme , the petitioner has filed this writ petition.

( 2 ) THE facts are not in dispute. The petitioner s father while working as Senior clerk in respondent-Corporation died in harness on 2-6-1998. Thereafter, the petitioner seemed to have filed an application on 12-10-1998 for her appointment in any suitable post on compassionate grounds. Thereafter, the petitioner seemed to have been called for interview on 23-11-1998 for the post of conductor and the Selection Committee rejected her case for appointment as conductor on the ground that she is not having required height as per rules and regulations of APSRTC prescribed for the post of conductor i. e. , 153 cms. , as her height is 149. 5 cms.

( 3 ) IN fact on an earlier occasion, when similar matter came up for hearing, I observed that the height prescribed for male members cannot be prescribed to the female members as their height as per Indian standard is far less than that of the male members. The judgment seemed to have been upheld b