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This writ petition is filed by the petitioner, to call for the records pertaining to the impugned order in Na.Ka.No.A4/40042/2016, dated 27.09.2016, on the file of the respondent and quash the same as illegal and consequently, direct the respondent to consider the petitioner for appointment on compassionate ground.

2.The case of the petitioner is that the petitioner's father was working as a Grade-I Police Constable (PC 3045) in the police Department and his father passed away on 22.12.1998, while he was in service, leaving behind the petitioner and his mother as his legal heirs and later the petitioner's mother has remarried and she left the petitioner under the control of his grandmother. At the time of death of the petitioner's father, he was four years old and after attaining majority, the petitioner has made a representation on 20.04.2015 to the respondent, seeking appointment on compassionate ground. Pursuant to which, the respondent has rejected the petitioner's representation on 27.09.2016 on the ground that he was a minor at the time of death of his father. Challenging the same, the present Writ Petition is filed.

3.The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner s