JUDGMENT :

Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J.

The appellant approached the learned writ Court by filing a petition for grant of the following substantive relief:

“That the respondents may kindly be directed to relax its policy dated 21.10.2005 and offer compassionate appointment as a Class-III/IV to the petitioner as a special case being dependent of deceased employee who was electrocuted while on duty and died on the spot.”

2. The case of the appellant is that his father, Mr. Sohan Singh, while serving as regular Chowkidar in the respondents-Board, died in harness on 14.11.2007. The deceased was the sole bread earner of the family and the appellant being son was entitled to be appointed on compassionate basis, however the application so submitted for the purpose to the respondents-Board was returned back with the observations that the compassionate appointment had been discontinued in view of new policy dated 3.11.2005. This constrained the appellant to issue legal notice and in response thereto, the respondents-Board, stated that the appellant’s mother was not entitled to be appointed on compassionate ground on account of death of her husband as per policy decision of the Board dated 3.11.200