IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CWP No.984 of 2010. Date of Decision: 7.9.2010 Hira Singh …Petitioner. Versus. HPSEB and another …Respondents. Coram: The Hon’ble Mr.Justice Deepak Gupta, Judge. Whether approved for Reporting? No For the Petitioner(s): Mr.A.K. Gupta, Advocate. For the Respondent(s): Ms.Anjula Khajuria, Advocate Deepak Gupta, J.(oral) This petition is directed against the order dated 12.3.2010 whereby the petitioner’s services have been retrenched. The petitioner has an efficacious and alternative remedy available to him by approaching the Labour Court. In fact the earlier petition filed by the petitioner being CWP No.1571 of 2008 was disposed of in the following terms: “The petitioner has assailed his retrenchment by his employer. It is now well settled that the petitioner ought to have raised industrial dispute under the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. In these circumstances, the petitioner is at liberty to invoke the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. With these observations the petition stands disposed of.” In view of this no other relief can be granted in this case except that liberty is reserved to the petitioner to raise an industrial 2 dispute in terms of the order passed in the aforesaid writ petition. The petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. September 7, 2010 ( Deepak Gupta ) PV Judge.