ORDER :

1. This writ petition has been filed for compassionate appointment and also to set aside the impugned orders/letters dated 5.1.2011, 17.1.2011 & 10.4.2012.

2. Father of the petitioner namely Lambadi Malaiya was posted as Peon under the respondent No.1/department, who died in harness on 26th October, 2006. The petitioner had filed an application for grant of compassionate appointment on 24.11.2006 along with relevant documents. Respondent No.3 vide letter dated 5.1.2007 forwarded the case of the petitioner to respondent No.2 for necessary action. As the post was not vacant in respondent No.1/department, respondent No.3 obtained consent of the petitioner for compassionate appointment on the post of Shiksha Karmi Grade-III and thereafter respondent No.3 again sent the case of the petitioner to respondent No.2 for necessary action. Respondent No.2 wrote a letter to respondent No,.6 on 4.2.2008 for providing compassionate appointment to the petitioner on the post of Shiksha Karmi Grade-III under the Janpad Panchayat Bhopalpattnam, but all such correspondences went in vain. Thereafter, the Collector, vide letter dated 5.1.2011 rejected the claim of the petitioner on the ground that