JUDGMENT :

J.J. MUNIR, J.

1. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 03.09.2013, passed by the District Judge of Firozabad, bearing Administrative Order No. 90 of 2013, rejecting the petitioner’s claim for compassionate appointment.

2. The petitioner’s husband, the late Mahadev Prasad, was a permanent Class-IV employee in the establishment of the District Court, Firozabad. He met with an accident on 22.03.2011 and died the same day, still in harness. After her husband’s demise, the petitioner moved an application before the learned District Judge, Firozabad, seeking compassionate appointment under the Uttar Pradesh Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules, 1974 (for short, ‘the Rules of 1974’). The petitioner’s application for appointment on compassionate ground lay unattended for a considerable period of time, leaving her with no option but to move this Court by means of Writ (A) No. 27883 of 2011, seeking a direction to decide her application. When the said writ petition came on 13.05.2011, learned Counsel for the second respondent informed the Court that the petitioner’s application had been rejected by the learned District Judge on 10.