ORDER :

The Writ Petition is filed aggrieved by the proceedings dated 22.09.2021 issued by the 3rd respondent as also letter dated 21.10.2021 of the 4th respondent in rejecting the case of the petitioner for compassionate appointment as illegal, arbitrary, unjust, to quash the same and for a consequential direction to the respondents to appoint the petitioner, in any suitable post, on compassionate grounds.

2. Heard Mr.M.R.S.Srinivas, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Services-III representing the respondents.

3. The basic facts, as set out in the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition, may be stated for better appreciation of the petitioner’s case.

4. The petitioner is the only daughter of one Peddisetty Uma Maheswara Rao, who died on 05.05.2021 due to COVID-19, while he was working as watchman in P.W.D. Workshop Division, Sitanagaram, Guntur District. The wife of the said Uma Maheswara Rao is uneducated, dependent on the deceased and the petitioner being the daughter of the deceased, not survived by siblings, sought for compassionate appointment claiming inter alia, that there is no earning member in the family and further th