1 / 3 2026:CGHC:5397 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 13645 of 2025 Tuleshwari Chandrakar D/o Late Hanuman Prasad Chandrakar Aged About 21 Years R/o 144, Boring Gali, Swami Vivekanand Ward No. 9, Girdhari Nagar, Durg, District Sakti C.G. ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through Secretary, Department Of Urban Administration And Development, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur, District Raipur C.G. 2 - Municipal Corporation, Durg, Through The Commissioner, Durg, District Durg C.G. ... Respondent(s) For Petitioner : Mr. Shikhar Bakhtiyar Advocate For Resp. No.1 : Ms. Anuja Sharma, Dy. Govt. Advocate For Resp. No.2 : Ms. Aishley Shrivastava, Advocate on behalf of Mr. Dhiraj Wankhede, Advocate S.B.: Hon'ble Shri Parth Prateem Sahu, Judge Order on Board Digitally signed by PRAVEEN KUMAR SINHA Date: 2026.02.03 10:28:06 +0530 2 / 3 30/01/2026 1. Petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking following reliefs: “10.1 That this Hon'ble court may kindly be pleased to issue a writ of Mandamus (or any other appropriate writ or direction) directing Respondent No. 1 and Respondent No. 2 to consider and pass a compassionate appointment order in favour of the petitioner, Tuleshwari Chandrakar, in accordance with the applicable rules and the statutory provisions governing compassionate appointments, and to do so within a specified period (preferably 30 days from the date of this order); 10.2 That the Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to grant such other and further relief as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case and in the interests of justice.” 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that father of petitioner while working as Driver under respondent No.2/Corporation died in harness on 17.03.2018. Petitioner thereafter submitted an application for grant of compassionate appointment in prescribed format on 01.01.2025. However, till date, no decision on petitioner’s application for grant of compassionate appointment is taken and therefore direction be issued to respondent No.2 to take decision on pending application at the earliest within specified time. 3. Learned counsel for the State/respondent No.1 submits that grievance of petitioner is against respondent No.2. 4. On due consideration of submission of learned counsel for the parties, without entering into merits of case this writ petition at this stage is 3 / 3 disposed of directing respondent No.2 to take decision on pending application of petitioner for grant of compassionate appointment in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a further period of 3 months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. Sd/- (Parth Prateem Sahu) Judge Praveen