ORDER :

1. The writ petition has been filed to quash the proceedings in Na.Ka.No.293/A1/2010, dated 27.07.2016 passed by the third respondent and direct the respondents to forthwith appoint the petitioner on compassionate ground in the respondent department.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner's father viz., M. Tamilarasu, died on 02.02.1998, while he was working as a PG Assistant in the Government Higher Secondary School, Kumaralingam, leaving behind him, his wife and two daughters and one son. On 27.02.1998, the petitioner's mother made an application seeking compassionate ground appointment to her son, well within the period of limitation, which was rejected by the District Educational Officer, Pollachi by order dated 11.12.2000 stating that the first legal heir should have made such application. Subsequently, the petitioner's mother made another application on 29.01.2001 stating that she was suffering from illness and her first daughter already got married and hence, she requested to provide appointment on compassionate ground to the petitioner, who is the second daughter of the deceased government servant. Finding no response on the same, the petitioner submit