JUDGMENT

P.B.Suresh Kumar, J. These appeals arise from the common judgment in two writ petitions namely W.P.(C) No.17999 of 2021 and W.P.(C)

No.26192 of 2021. As the writ petitions were disposed of by a common judgment, the appeals are also disposed of by this common judgment. Parties and documents are referred to in this judgment for convenience, as they appear in W.P.(C) No.17999 of 2021.

2. The mother of the petitioner, R.Remadevi Amma died in harness on 29.01.1989, while working as High School Assistant in the Vocational Higher Secondary School of which the fifth respondent is the Manager. The petitioner and her elder sister were the only children of the deceased. Both of them were minors at the time of the death of their mother. The elder sister of the petitioner, Remya R. Chandran, on attaining majority, preferred an application before the Manager of the School for employment assistance invoking Rule 51B of Chapter XIVA of the Kerala Education Rules (the KER ). The application preferred by the sister of the petitioner for employment assistance was not considered by the Manager. Instead, the Manager appointed another candidate in the vacancy that was existing at the time when