SHEHNAZ BANO Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAJIV Sharma, J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel.

(2.) THE present writ petition has been filed by the wife of Tufail Ahmad for a direction to the competent authority to consider her case for compassionate appointement against a post of Category IV and for quashing the communique/order dated 23. 2. 2001, passed by the Secretary, Basic Shiksha Parishad.

(3.) LATER on, Secretary, U. P. Basic Shiksna Parishad, Allahabad vide letter dated 23. 3. 2001 directed for giving appintment to respondent No. 4 mentioning therein that in para 9 of the Government Order, the dependent son of deceased has got first preference. The said order of the Secretary, U. P. Basic Shiksha Parishad has been assailed in the present writ petition inter alia on the grounds that the Secretary wrongly interpreted that the son is at the top of the list of preference vide order dated 23. 3. 2001. The Secretary did not consider the vital fact that it is the petitioner who is looking after the children of late Tufail Ahmad. The petitioner has no other source of livelihood except the meagre pension which she is getting. Her husband was the only bread earner of the family.