Dipankar Datta, J.

(for the Hon’ble the Acting Chief Justice & himself)

1. M.A.T. 1299 of 2016, since renumbered F.M.A. 4401 of 2016, is directed against the judgment and order dated May 18, 2016 passed by a learned Judge of this Court (hereafter the said judgment). W.P. 4290 (W) of 2016 (Smt. Putul Rabidas v. The Eastern Coalfields Ltd.), presented by the appellant, was dismissed thereby. Noting that the point involved in W.P. 25878(W) of 2015 (Sefali Banerjee v. The Union of India & ors.) was covered by the said judgment, His Lordship dismissed it too by an order dated June 9, 2016. Such order is impugned in M.A.T. 1279 of 2016, since renumbered F.M.A. 4403 of 2016.

2. It appears on a bare reading of the decisions under appeal that the learned Judge refused relief to the appellants (Putul and Sefali) based on the specific finding that a divorcee daughter of an employee of the Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (hereafter ECL) dying-in-harness is not entitled to the benefit of compassionate appointment/monetary compensation in terms of the National Coal Wages Agreement-VI (herea