JUDGMENT :

1. This writ petition is directed against an order dated 20.01.2020, declining an application by the petitioner’s mother seeking compassionate appointment for him on ground of his father’s death in harness.

2. The facts giving rise to this petition are that the petitioner’s father was employed as an office assistant in Baroda U.P. Bank, earlier known as the Purvanchal Bank. The said bank shall hereinafter be called ‘the Bank’. The petitioner’s father was last posted at Branch Kadamtar, District Ballia. He died in harness on 8th of October, 2018. The petitioner’s mother moved an application seeking compassionate appointment for him, the petitioner being the eldest son of the deceased. The application was made to the General Manager of the Bank on 18.04.2019 accompanied by the deceased employee’s death certificate dated 02.11.2018. The Assistant General Manager of the Bank by the order impugned dated 20.01.2020 communicated the Bank’s decision declining to consider the petitioner’s case on ground that the dying in harness scheme became effective in the Bank w.e.f. 15th March, 2019, whereas the petitioner’s father had expired prior to 15th March, 2019.

3. The petitioner has