JUDGMENT :

The instant intra-court appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent is directed against the order/judgment dated 10.12.2020 passed by learned Single Judge in W.P. (S) No. 3025 of 2019 whereby and whereunder order dated 30.04.2019, passed by the concerned authority of the appellants-State by which the claim of the petitioner for regularization of service was rejected, was quashed and set aside with a direction to regularize the services of the petitioner with all consequential benefits within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt/production of copy of the order.

2. The brief facts, necessary for consideration of the lis, stand enumerated as hereunder:

The writ petitioner was appointed on temporary basis on 19.11.1979 against the sanctioned and vacant post on account of leave vacancy. Thereafter a fresh notification was issued on 26.12.1979 i.e., after the person who was on leave namely, Mohan Prasad returned, by which the petitioner’s service was extended and he was posted in different circle i.e., Jharia Circle on account of non-availability of fresh clerk against the sanctioned and vacant post. On 27.04.1983 another letter was issued stating therein that the case