JUDGMENT :

B.R. SARANGI, J.

The Petitioner, as the son of Late Krishnakant Singh, who was working as Senior Operator in CRM Department of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), Rourkela, has filed this Writ Petition seeking to quash the Order dated 12.12.2017 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack, in T.A. No. 19 of 2015 dismissing his claim for Compassionate Appointment.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that father of the Petitioner Late Krishnakant Singh, while working as a Senior Operator in CRM Department of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), Rourkela, suffered from Carcinoma Rectum, which was in advance stage of cancer, and due to Cardio-respiratory failure he died in harness on 16.04.2013. The father of the Petitioner, after initial treatment, being diagnosed with the said terminal illness, before his death, requested the Authority for declaration of his Medical Invalidation and Compassionate Appointment in favour of the Petitioner, vide his application dated 08.04.2013 submitted on 09.04.2013, which was immediately processed on 10.04.2013. When such request, as made vide application dated 08.04.2013, was under process, he became serious and was admit