JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records pertaining to the impugned order of the 2nd Respondent in its proceedings in Na.Ka.No.701/2019 dated 11.11.2022 and quash the same as illegal and incompetent and also directing the Respondents to appoint the Petitioner as Sanitary Worker on compassionate appointment in the Kotagiri Town Panchayat.)

This Writ Petition has been filed challenging the rejection order passed by the 2nd Respondent, rejecting the request of the Petitioner for Compassionate Appointment.

2.(a) The Writ Petitioner is the grand daughter of one Mr. Sundaram. He worked as a Sanitary worker in the Kotagiri Special Grade Town Panchayat and he died in harness on 17.11.2017. It is the case of the Petitioner that she was all along under the care and custody of her grandfather since her mother has already died and father abandoned her. After the death of the grandfather, the Petitioner moved back to Kotagiri along with her husband to take care of her grandmother. As she could not work due to her old age, she has nominated the Petitioner to take up the Compassionate em