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.5590 of 2020

2. This interlocutory application has been preferred under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condoning the delay of 62 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.5590 of 2020 is allowed and delay of 62 days in preferring the appeal is condoned.

L.P.A. No.234 of 2019

6. The instant appeal under Clause 10 of the letters patent of the Patna High Court, is directed against the order/judgment dated 28.11.2018 passed by learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No.2499 of 2018 whereby and whereunder the writ Court has declined to interfere with the impugned order dated 21/22.07.2017 by which the claim of the writ petitioner for appointment on compassionate ground has been rejected.

7. The brief fact of the case, whic