Interlocutory Application No. 101 of 2011:

The delay of 10 days occurred in filing the Letters Patent Appeal is condoned.

2. Interlocutory Application stands disposed of.

Letters Patent Appeal No. 15 of 2011:

3. Feeling aggrieved by the common judgment and order dated 8th November 2010 passed by the learned single Judge insofar as C.W.J.C. No.16552 of 2009 is allowed, the intervener has preferred this Appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent.

4. We may at the outset record that an intervener may, with permission of the Court, contest the proceeding filed before this Court. However, the only right of the intervener is that of hearing in opposition, if permitted. The intervener has no right to relief in the proceeding; nor the intervener has a right to prefer appeal. In the present case, although the appellant had, pending C.W.J.C. No.16552 of 2009, filed Interlocutory Application No.8154 of 2010 for permission to intervene in the proceeding, the said application was not allowed. Thus, the appellant had not been given permission to contest the proceeding before the learned single Judge. We are, therefore, of the opinion that the present Appeal by the intervener is