IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINTIAL Writ Petition No. 87 of 2008 (S/B) Stm. Lalita Verma. ………. Petitioner Versus State of Uttarakhand & other. ………. Respondents Mr. S.N. Babulkar, Senior Advocate with Mr. Anil Bisht, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. J.P. Joshi, Chief Standing Counsel for the respondents. JUDGMENT Coram: Hon’ble V.K. Gupta, C.J. Hon’ble J.C.S. Rawat, J. V.K. GUPTA, C.J. (Oral) Mr. J.P. Joshi, learned Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the respondents has drawn our attention to a Division Bench judgment of this Court passed on 26th March, 2008 in Writ Petition No. 275 of 2007 (S/B) and connected case and submits that based upon the ratio in that case, this petition should be dismissed and the petitioner should be sent to the Public Services Tribunal. We have perused the judgment very carefully and tend to agree with Mr. J.P. Joshi’s preliminary objecting about the maintainability of the petition. We accordingly dismiss this writ petition only because of the fact that the petitioner has the alternative remedy of approaching the Public Services Tribunal. We do wish to observer that we have not expressed any opinion or taken any view about the merits of the case. The writ petition is dismissed. The interim order dated 23rd May, 2008 shall stand vacated. (J.C.S. Rawat, J.) (V.K. Gupta, C. J.) 04.06.2008 04.06.2008 G