JUDGMENT :

Ninala Jayasurya, J.

1. Assailing the order dated 03.02.2020 passed by the learned Single Judge, the respondents in W.P. No. 17055 of 2019 filed the present appeal.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they were arrayed in the writ petition.

3. The writ petitioner feeling aggrieved by the action of the respondents-appellants in not appointing him on compassionate grounds due to the death of his father one Mr. Kamepalli Anjaneyulu filed the said writ petition. In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, it was stated inter alia that the petitioner's mother Smt. Kamepalli Hymavathi is the legally wedded wife of the petitioner's father Anjaneyulu and after the birth of the petitioner's last sister, his father developed an affair with one Eeswaramma and deserted his mother and four sisters, sent them out of matrimonial home about 23 years back when he was at the age of 5 years, keeping the petitioner with him. It was also stated that the petitioner was under the care and custody of his father till he died intestate on 25.01.2019 while in service, that the marriage of the petitioner was performed by him on 20.02.2014 and that the petitioner h