JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent seeking to set aside the order dated 18.11.2021 passed in W.P. (MD) No.10605 of 2014.)

P.N. Prakash, J.

1. This intra-Court appeal has been preferred calling into question the legality and validity of the order dated 18.11.2021 passed by a learned single judge of this Court in W.P. (MD) No.10605 of 2014.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their rank in the instant intra-Court appeal.

3. The District Collector, Sivagangai and the Child Development Project Officer, Singampunari are the appellants.

4. Before the learned single judge, the respondent was not present. Therefore, when this intra-Court appeal came up, we directed issuance of notice to her and she appeared before us on 29.06.2022. When asked whether she requires any assistance, she expressed her opinion in the affirmative. Accordingly, she engaged a counsel and contested the appeal.

5. In the writ petition, the respondent had challenged the order dated 29.05.2014 passed by the first appellant, besides seeking a direction to the f