IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 349 (S/B) of 2005 1. Girja Shankar Pandey S/o late Sri D.D. Pandey, Presently posted as Director, Rajaji National Park, Dehradun. 2. Bhawani Prakash Gupta s/o late Shri D.N. Shahu Presently posted as Additional Secretary, Environment and Forest, Uttaranchal, Dehradun. 3. Kapil Kumar Joshi s/o Shri M.C. Joshi, Presently posted as Regional Manager. Uttaranchal Forest Devlopment Corporation, Ram Nagar, District Nainital. 4. Sargam Singh rasaily s/o Shri D.S. Rasaily, Presently posted as Conservator of Forest, North Kumaon Forest Circle, Nainital, Uttaranchal. ………… Petitioners Versus 1. Union of India through Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, New Delhi. 2. State of Uttaranchal through Secretary (Forest), Government of Uttaranchal, Secretariat, Dehradun, Uttaranchal, 3. State of U.P. through Principal Secretary (Forest), Government of U.P., Secretariat, Lucknow, U.P. 4. Prinicipal Chief Conservator of Forest, Uttaranchal at Nainital 5. Rameshwar Tiwari, IFS through Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, U.P. Lucknow. ………. Respondents ……………. JUDGMENT Coram: Hon’ble Rajeev Gupta, C.J. Hon’ble Rajesh Tandon, J. Rajeev Gupta, C.J. (Oral) Mr. Sudhanshu Dhulia, Senior counsel with Miss Puja Banga, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Arvind Vashistha, Asstt. Solicitor General for respondent no 1. 2 Mr. N.C. Gupta, Standing Counsel for respondents 2 and 4. Mrs. Beena Pande, Standing Counsel (U.P. Govt.) for respondent no. 3. Mr. A.R. Masoodi, Advocate for respondent no. 5. 2. Mr. Dhulia, the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners seeks permission to withdraw the writ petition with the liberty of filing an Original Application before the Central Administrative Tribunal for the redressal of the grievances projected by the petitioners in this writ petition and to seek condonation of the delay on the ground that the petitioners were prosecuting this writ petition under bona fide belief. 3. Permission granted. 4. With the above liberty, the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn. 5. With the above order, CLMAs Nos. 12607 of 2005 and 11724 of 2006 stand disposed of. (Rajesh Tandon, J.) (Rajeev Gupta, C. J.) 22.09.2006 22.09.2006 A