PRADIP KUMAR MEHTA Vs. CENTRAL COALFIELDS LIMITED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent is directed against the Judgment and Order dated 14.9.2004 passed in WPS No. 825 of 2004 whereby the learned Single Judge dismissed the writ application holding that the application for compassionate appointment was rightly rejected by the respondents on the ground of limitation. For better appreciation, the impugned judgment is quoted herein below:

(2.) THE facts of the case lie in a narrow compass:

(3.) FROM the pleadings of the parties the undisputed facts, which emerge, are that the appellant was minor when his father died on 9.5.1999. It is also not disputed that after attaining majority the appellant applied for compassionate appointment on 11.3.2000 which is within time.