ORDER

This Writ Petition is filed challenging the impugned order dated

16.06.2021, whereby petitioner’s request for compassionate appointment was rejected on the premise that petitioner being a minor son, ought to have submitted his application within a period of three years from the date of death of the deceased employee.

2. Petitioner’s mother was working as a Headmaster in a Village Panchayat Union Elementary School and died in harness on 14.01.2008. Petitioner was only 12 years old at that time and was under the care of his relatives, inasmuch as he had lost his father even earlier when he was only five years old. Petitioner filed an application on 01.02.2021, which was rejected vide the impugned order on the premise that the application is beyond the period of three years from the date of death of his mother, by placing reliance upon G.O.Ms.No.18, Labour and Employment (Q1) Department, dated 23.01.2020.

3. Learned counsel for petitioner would submit that petitioner, h