1. The present writ petition has been filed for directing the respondents to grant compensation to the petitioner to the tune of Rs. 21,00,000/-as also give employment to the family members of the deceased, who has been killed during the course of police firing in an encounter with the criminals.

2. The brief facts of the case, according to the petitioner, are that the deceased son of the petitioner, namely, Ranvijay Kumar, was working since the month of March, 1996 as a Special Educator in a school meant for mentally retarded namely, Ayurvedic Magneto Research Institute (AMRI), Panchsheel, Kumhrar, Patna and was getting a salary of Rs. 5000/- per month. On 28.12.2000 at about 4:30 pm., the deceased son of the petitioner was shot dead in a police firing near the Kumhrar police outpost when he was going to the Sandalpur hostel with his two students and he was struck in the cross-firing that had taken place in between the police and the criminals, leading to filing of an FIR bearing Agamkuan P.S. Case No. 265 of 2000 against unknown for the offences under Section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act. On 29.12.2000, post mortem was conducted over the body of