ORDER :

1. The applicant (respondent No.4 herein) before the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal, Bengaluru (‘Tribunal’ for short) has come up in this writ petition, impugning the order dated 10.10.2017.

2. The brief facts leading to filing of this writ petition are as under:

Petitioners No.1 and 2 are the sons of Late T.S.Chandrashetty, who was working as Group ‘D’ employee in the Department of Directorate of Health and Family Services. It is stated that while he was discharging his duties as an attender in the Government Hospital, Beluru, he said to have died in harness on 12.03.2013 leaving him surviving his wife Smt.Komala (to whom he was married to after the death of his first wife Smt.Savithri) and a minor daughter born to her in the wedlock between himself and Smt.Komala. Besides, he is also survived by his two sons (who are petitioners herein) through his first wife namely, Smt.Savithri.

3. The record would indicate that after the death of T.S.Chandrashetty, two applications came to be filed seeking appointment on compassionate grounds, one by his surviving wife Smt.Komala and another by his first son T.C.Shekar through his earlier wife Smt.Savithri. The said applications