JUDGMENT :

1. With consent of the parties, hearing of the matter has been done through video conferencing and there is no complaint whatsoever regarding audio and visual quality.

I.A. No.2141 of 2019

2 This interlocutory application has been preferred under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condoning the delay of 193 days in preferring this Letters Patent Appeal.

3. Heard.

4. In view of the submissions made on behalf of the parties and the averments made in the interlocutory application, we are of the view that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause in preferring the appeal within the period of limitation.

5. Accordingly, I.A. No.2141 of 2019 is allowed and delay of 193 days in preferring the appeal is condoned.

L.P.A. No.96 of 2019

6. This instant intra-court appeal is directed against the order/judgment dated 22.06.2018 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No.2385 of 2009, whereby and whereunder the writ petition has been dismissed, declining to interfere with the order as contained in letter no. 5/Ni 1-02/07/198 dated 05.06.2008 issued by the Director (Higher Education) Human Resource Development Department, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi.

7. The brief