CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER

4 10-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the respondents.

2. The petitioners have filed the instant application praying for quashing the order dated 16.2.2017 passed by the respondent no.3 whereby the application of the petitioner no.2 for his appointment on compassionate ground in place of his father was rejected.

3. The relevant facts in brief are that the father of the petitioner no.2, who was working as Sepoy in the Border Security Force, took voluntary retirement on 27.12.1995.

Subsequent thereto, after having retired from service the father of the petitioner no.2 died on 28.9.1997.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that at the relevant time, the petitioner no.2 was one year old. Having attained his majority, he filed his application for appointment on compassionate ground on 22.12.2015 which came to be rejected by the order impugned.

5. The application is opposed by learned counsel appearing for the respondents who referring to the order impugned and the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the respondents submits that the petitioners have not made out any case for