JUDGMENT :

B.K. Narayana and Rohit Ranjan Agarwal, JJ.

1. Heard Sri Ravi Prakash Pandey, learned Counsel for the appellant.

2. None appears on behalf of the respondent.

This special appeal has been preferred by the General Manager (Personnel) of UCO Bank, Kolkata, and the Regional Manager, UCO Bank, Bhelpura, District Varanasi, against the judgment and order dated 31st July, 2002, passed by learned Single Judge of this Court in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 23899 of 2000.

3. The facts of this case as emerging from the perusal of the pleadings filed before the Writ Court are that the father of the petitioner-respondent Dhiraj Kumar Dixit was working on the post of Assistant Cashier in the UCO Bank, Chowk, Varanasi. He died in harness on 6.2.1997. The petitioner-respondent on 20.5.1997 claimed appointment on compassionate ground. His application remained pending. He filed writ petition No. 1765 of 2000, which was disposed of by this Court on 17.1.2000 directing the petitioner-respondent to make a fresh representation, which was to be decided by the General Manager (Personnel), UCO Bank, Calcutta. The petitioner-respondent prepared a fresh representation and sent it by registered post alon