JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for the issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, after calling for the concerned records from the first respondent, quash the order of the first respondent dated 27.11.2013 bearing Letter No.23663/Pol.XV/2011-18 as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to law and consequently direct the respondents to appoint the petitioner on compassionate basis in the suitable post.)

1. The order of rejection dated 27.11.2013, rejecting the claim of the writ petitioner for compassionate appointment, is under challenge in the present writ petition.

2. The petitioner states that his mother Smt.B.Yasodha was working as Junior Assistant in the office of the third respondent- Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore and died on 14.04.1995. The father of the writ petitioner, at the time of the death of his mother, was working as Packer in Lakshmi Machine Works, Coimbatore. The petitioner states that on account of the sudden death of his mother, the family of the writ petitioner was in penurious circumstances and submitted an application seeking appointment on compassionate grounds. The said application was rejected