JUDGMENT :

N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR, J.

None appears for the petitioner, on call. However, Mr. Dilip Mazumdar, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam, assisted by Mr. R. Dhar, learned Addl. Senior Government Advocate, are present on behalf of all the respondents.

2. The petitioner, herein, by way of instituting the present proceeding, has presented a challenge to the speaking order, dated 24.04.2017, along with a challenge to the decision arrived at by the State Level Committee in its meeting held on 27.11.2015, towards rejecting the case of the petitioner, herein, for appointment on compassionate ground.

3. As projected in the writ petition, the father of the petitioner Late Safikur Rahman, while working as a Grade-IV employee in the North Lakhimpur Civil Hospital, under the Joint Director of Health Services, Lakhimpur, North Lakhimpur, had died-in-harness on 20.06.2012. The petitioner in pursuance of the death of his father in harness, submitted an application on 03.08.2012, praying for consideration of his case for appointment on compassionate ground. The application of the petitioner was considered by the jurisdictional District Level C