JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

I.A. No. 6515 of 2022

This interlocutory application has been preferred under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condoning the delay of 14 days in preferring the instant L.P.A.

2. Considering the sufficient cause as has been referred in the interlocutory application and having no objection on the part of the Respondent State, the delay of 14 days in preferring the appeal is hereby condoned.

3. Accordingly, the instant Interlocutory Application being I.A. No. 6515 of 2022, stands allowed and disposed of.

L.P.A. No. 260 of 2022

4. The appeal is under Clause(X) of the Letters Patent is directed against the order dated 20.04.2022 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No. 5850 of 2009, whereby and where under the prayer for a direction upon the respondents to compensate the writ petitioner due to the alleged laches committed on the part of the respondents in not appointing the writ petitioner, has been declined to be interfered with by dismissing the writ petition.

5. The brief facts of the case as per the pleading made in the application is required to be enumerated, reads as under:

The writ petition had been filed for the following rel