JUDGMENT :

1. In the present writ petition, the petitioner is praying for a direction directing the respondent authorities to grant death-cum-retirement gratuity to him, which he would be entitled to receive upon the demise of his mother.

2. The brief facts of the case are as under:

2.1 The mother of the petitioner namely, Naynaben Yogendrabhai Pandya was appointed as a Clerk vide order dated 10.05.1984 in the office of the Assistant District Registrar at Himmatnagar on compassionate ground upon death of her husband. As per the terms of appointment order, mother of the petitioner was required to pass pre-service training examination within stipulated chances i.e. three chances but she could not clear because of her social liabilities and responsibilities of three minor children and aged mother-in-law. However, though over and above three regular chances, two additional chances were available to widow, as per policy of the State Government. Despite request, she was not granted those additional chances.

2.2 Thereafter, the mother of the petitioner came to be terminated from service on the said ground by the District Registrar on 21.08.1993, which constrained her to approach this Court a