Pushpa Sathyanarayana, J.

1. Challenging the rejection of representation for compassionate appointment vide order dated 01.3.2011 passed by the office of the Director General of Police confirming the order of the Superintendent of Police, Turicorin District, the petitioner has come up with the present writ petition and has also sought for direction to the respondents to provide him employment on compassionate grounds.

2. One P. Malaiappan was functioning as a Sub-Inspector of Police and while in service, he expired on 08.4.2008 due to an accident. He was survived by the petitioner and his sisters born through the second wife and two wives. It is the case of the petitioner that his father originally married one Saroja, who was none other than his mother's elder sister and since she was issueless, his father married his mother as his second wife and they all lived in one house. The further case of the petitioner is that at the time of his father's death, he was studying degree of law and hence, his mother's sister, viz. first wife of the deceased, sent a representation dated 26.11.2008 to the second respondent Superintendent of Police, Tuticorin District, requesting for his appo