JUDGMENT :

N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR, J.

Heard Ms. Leena Wajeeda, 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 jurisdictional District Level Committee in its meeting held on 05.06.2013, towards rejecting her case for appointment on compassionate ground on the ground of non-availability of vacant post as well as on account of the fact that the application as submitted by the petitioner had lost its force on lapse of 2 years from the date, it was so submitted.

3. As projected in the writ petition, the husband of the petitioner Late Suresh Rabidas, while working as a Junior Assistant in the establishment of Joint Director, Agriculture Department, Assam, Silchar, had died-in-harness on 02.04.2005. The petitioner in pursuance of the death of her husband in harness, submitted an application on 27.07.2005, before the competent authority praying for