JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

The instant intra-court appeal, under clause 10 of the Letters Patent, is directed against the order/judgment dated 06.05.2016 passed by learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No.4723 of 2014, whereby and whereunder, the writ petition filed challenging the order dated 06.11.2013, by which the compassionate ground of the writ petitioner has been turned down on the ground that the writ petitioner is the married daughter and is not a dependant as per the Scheme, has been declined to be interfered with by dismissing the writ petition.

I.A. No. 10226 of 2022:

2. The instant appeal is admittedly barred by limitation since there is delay of 1577 days in preferring the appeal, therefore, an application being I.A. No. 10226 of 2022 has been filed for condoning such delay.

3. This Court, after taking into consideration the fact that the instant intra-court appeal has been field after inordinate delay of 1577 days, deems it fit and proper, to first consider the delay condonation application before going into the legality and propriety of the impugned order on merit.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant-petitioner has submitted that delay in preferring the