JUDGMENT :

N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR, J.

Heard Mr. S. C. Biswas, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. Dilip Mazumdar, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam, assisted by Mr. R. Dhar, learned Addl. Senior Government Advocate, appearing on behalf of all the respondents.

2. The petitioner, herein, by way of instituting the present proceeding, has presented a challenge to the decision arrived at by the State Level Committee in its meeting held on 19.12.2015, rejecting the claim of the petitioner for appointment on compassionate ground in any Grade-IV vacant post in the Department concerned.

3. As projected in the writ petition, the father of the petitioner Late Dharmeswar Das, while working as a Forest Guard in the establishment of the Divisional Forest Officer, Sonitpur West Division, Tezpur, had died-in- harness on 24.11.2010. The petitioner in pursuance of the death of his father in harness, submitted an application on 16.03.2011, praying for consideration of his case for appointment on compassionate ground. The case of the petitioner was considered by the jurisdictional District Level Committee in its meeting held on 18.02.2012