JUDGMENT :

1. This interlocutory application has been filed for condoning the delay of 247 days, which has occurred in preferring this appeal.

2. Heard learned counsel for the appellants.

3. Having regard to the averments made in this application, we are of the view that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring the appeal within the period of limitation.

4. Accordingly, I.A. No.2924 of 2020 is allowed and the delay of 247 days in preferring the appeal is condoned.

L.P.A. No.771 of 2019:

5. The instant intra-court appeal is under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent directed against the order/judgment dated 17.01.2019 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No.6518 of 2016, whereby and whereunder, the claim of the writ petitioner for appointment on compassionate ground has been refused to be interfered with.

6. The brief facts of the lis which is required to be enumerated read as hereunder:

The mother of the writ petitioner, namely, Sundri Kamin was permanent employee of Central Coalfields Limited, Amlo Project, Bermo, Bokaro as a Piece Rated Worker. She became traceless on or before 02.04.2003. The writ petitioner filed a suit being Title Suit No.37 of