CWP No. 545/2000 2.4.2008: Present: Mr. R. M. Bisht and Mr. Rajesh Mandhotra, Deputy Advocate Generals for the petitioners. Mr. Ajay Sharma, Advocate for the respondent. One of the main grounds raised in the petition is that the learned Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal had no jurisdiction to pass the impugned order in view of the judgment rendered in case “H.P. Agro Industries Corporation Limited and others versus Raj Kumar and another [2002 (3) Shimla L.C. 423]. Faced with the situation, Mr. Ajay Sharma submits that the petitioner may be allowed to withdraw the original application filed before the learned Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal with liberty to raise the issue before an appropriate forum or in the alternative to represent the to department for the redressal of his grievances. The prayer being genuine is accepted. In view of the withdrawal of the original application, the writ petition filed by the petitioners is allowed, the order of the learned Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal is set aside and the original application is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty granted to the petitioner as prayed for by Mr. Ajay Sharma. (Deepak Gupta), J. April 2, 2008 (Rajiv Sharma ), J. *Awasthi*