ORDER :

Prayer : Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to call for the records on the file of the 1st respondent in PAD/178/CL/491/2015-2016 and quash the impugned letter dated 10.02.2016 as highly illegal and further direct the 1st respondent to pay the interest at the rate of 24% per annum from the date of Limitation.

The petitioner's husband, while serving as a Messenger in the respondent bank for more than 20 years, died on 07.12.2007. To the request of the petitioner for compassionate appointment, the first respondent herein had rejected on 10.09.2008 on the ground that there is no scheme for compassionate appointment. Thereafter, the petitioner made an application dated 18.07.2010 for Ex-gratia since compassionate appointment was declined. When this request for Ex-gratia was rejected by the respondent on 20.06.2011 the same was challenged before this Court together with the rejection order dated 10.09.2008, rejecting the petitioner's claim for compassionate appointment. This Court, by order dated 10.09.2014 had held that when the bank knew that there was no scheme for compassionate appointment when