ORDER :

1. The question that arises for consideration in the present writ petition is whether the State Government is justified in refusing compassionate appointment to widowed daughter-in-law (the petitioner herein) of the deceased Government Servant on the ground that the policy issued for such appointment does not include widowed daughter-in-law.

2. The above-stated question arises in the following factual matrix of the case:

Sri Lakshmi Padmavati Sameta Sri Venkateswara Swamy Vari Devastanam, Vaikuntapuram, Tenali-respondent No. 2 is an institution, registered under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for short ‘the Act’) and published under Section 6 (a) of the Act, wherein the annual income of the institution is over and above Rs. 1,00,00,000/-. One Ch. Yedukondalu, father-in-law of the petitioner, who was working as Attender in respondent No. 2- Devastanam, died in harness on 03-04-2013. The deceased Ch. Yedukondalu was survived by his wife Smt. Ch. Sugunamma, widowed daughter-in-law-the petitioner herein and a married daughter by name Smt. Vema Durga. The son of Ch. Yedukondalu predeceased him on 27-12-2012