JUDGMENT :

(Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.) :

1. The petitioners are the heirs and legal representatives of Late Sachipati Ghatak. The petitioner no.1 is the son and the petitioner no.2 is the daughter of the said deceased. Late Sachipati died on December 28, 1981. It is alleged that during his lifetime, the said deceased was an employee, being an ambulance driver of the Katwa Sub-Divisional Hospital and had died in harness, leaving behind his wife and children. The wife of Late Sachipati also met her demise subsequently, leaving the petitioners as her only heirs.

2. In the year 1983, the petitioners’ mother made an application to the competent authority seeking employment of her son, the petitioner no.1, on compassionate ground. The Sub-Divisional Medical Officer, Katwa, forwarded the application to the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Burdwan. Thereafter, the matter went before several forums and ultimately, pursuant to a direction of a Division Bench of this Court, was remanded to the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal, which directed the service book of the deceased to be reconstructed. Ultimately, however, the matter went up to the Lokayukta, West Bengal before whom it was discl