JUDGMENT :

1. With consent of the parties, hearing of the matter has been done through video conferencing and there is no complaint whatsoever regarding audio and visual quality.

2. The instant intra-court appeal, preferred under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent, is directed against the order/judgment dated 09.04.2019 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P. (S) No. 2500 of 2012 whereby and whereunder the learned Single Judge, while dismissing the writ petition, has refused to interfere with the order as contained under memo no. 3436 dated 21.03.2012 by which the claim of the writ petitioner for appointment on compassionate ground, has been rejected.

3. The brief facts of the case, as per the pleadings in the writ petition, which are required to be enumerated, are as hereunder:

The mother-in-law of the writ petitioner was a regular employee under respondents who had died in harness on 07.04.1994. The father-in-law of the writ petitioner had subsequently died on 13.12.2000. Since there was no male dependent in the family of the deceased employee, the writ petitioner, being second son-in-law, had applied for compassionate appointment vide application dated 19.11.1997, whic