Bhaskar Bhattacharya, J.

1. THIS Mandamus-Appeal is at the instance of a third party in a proceeding under Article 226 of the Constitution of India and is directed against the order dated September 8, 2009 passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court by which His Lordship disposed of a writ-application by directing the West Bengal Fisheries Corporation Ltd., one of the Respondents in the writ application, (hereinafter called Corporation) to ensure that the writ-petitioner no. 1, the Local Panchayat, was permitted to exercise its rights in the next and the following fishing seasons to recommend the names of the labourers to be engaged by the Corporation for lifting ice from the ice plant in question.

2. ALTHOUGH neither the writ-petitioners nor the Corporation has preferred any appeal against such order, the appellants, a labour contractor and his 12 labourers, who were at the relevant point of time engaged in lifting ice from the plant of the Corporation, have come up with this appeal with an application to grant leave to prefer an appeal. The writ petitioners, the Local Panchayat, represented by its Pradhan, filed the writ application, out of which the present appeal aris