This writ petition has been filed praying to call for the records in RET/31-36/99 on the file of the second respondent and quash the order dated 17.03.2003 made therein and consequently direct the first respondent to appoint the petitioner on compassionate grounds in Group III category or any post equivalent thereto with all service benefits w.e.f. 011. 1999.

2. The brief facts leading to the filing of this writ petition are as follows :

(i) The petitioners father, while working as Senior Section Supervisor (S.S.S.) in Central Telegraph Office, Chennai 600 001, (now known as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., (BSNL), a Government of India Enterprise) suddenly died intestate of brain stroke, leaving behind the petitioner, his mother and two other sons. He had two and a half years of service to his credit at the time of his death. Since he died while he was in service and that one of the representatives of the family members being eligible for a job in the Department, the petitioner, who is an under graduate in Science, was nominated by the family members for the same and his mother made representations on 011. 1998 and 111. 1998 nominating the petitioner for employment, in respon