JUDGMENT :

I.A. No. 5871 of 2021

1. This interlocutory application has been preferred under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condoning the delay of 476 days in preferring this Letters Patent Appeal.

2. Heard learned counsel for the appellants.

3. Having regard to the averments made in the application and submissions made on behalf of the appellants, we are of the view that the appellants were prevented from sufficient cause in filing the appeal within the period of limitation. As such, the delay of 476 days in preferring the appeal is hereby condoned.

4. I.A. No. 5871 of 2021 stands allowed.

L.P.A. No.773 of 2018

5. The instant intra-court appeal, preferred by the State of Jharkhand under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent, is directed against the order/judgment dated 25.07.2018 passed by learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No.3481 of 2011 whereby and whereunder, while allowing the writ petition, the order as contained in letter dated 05.12.2014, issued by the Director, Higher Education wherein the University has been directed to send a proposal of pay-fixation of the petitioner in the pay-scale of Reader in the 6th UGC pay-scale and not against the post of University Pro