JUDGMENT :

1. While hearing Writ Petition No. 3907 of 2021, a Division Bench of this Court (Bench at Nagpur) passed the following order dated April 7, 2022:

“The petitioner is the widow of one Shri Raju Khapekar who was serving as a Clerk at Bank of Baroda, Manewada Branch, Nagpur. He expired in harness on 22-8-2019. The petitioner sought appointment on compassionate grounds by moving an application dated 17-2-2020. The petitioner was informed on 5-12-2020 that under the ‘Scheme for Compassionate Appointment/Payment of Ex-gratia Financial Relief to dependents of deceased employees on Compassionate Ground’ dated 18-2-2016 the financial condition of the petitioner’s family was not found to be indigent. While arriving at that conclusion, various amounts received by the family towards provident fund, gratuity, etc. were taken into consideration. Being aggrieved the petitioner has challenged the aforesaid communication and seeks a direction to be issued to the Bank of Baroda for her appointment on compassionate grounds.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioner by relying upon the decisions in Smt. Archana Wd/o Mahendra Arbat, Nanded and others vs. Maharashtra Gramin Bank, through its Regi