CWP No. 1140 of 2005 23.4.2009 Present: Ms. Jyotsna Rewal Dua, counsel for the petitioner. Mr. R.K.Bawa, Advocate General, with Mr. P.K.Sharma, Additional Advocate General, for respondent No. 1. Mr. Tarlok Chauhan, counsel for respondent No. 2. Mr. Rakesh Dogra, counsel for respondent No. 17. Mr. Ajay Mohan Goel, counsel for respondents No. 18 to 27. It is submitted by the counsel for the petitioner that after passing of the impugned judgment by the H.P. State Administrative Tribunal, the Registrar of the Tribunal made a reference to the government conveying the approval of the Chairman of the Tribunal with respect to the principal rules of 2001, proposal regarding which was made vide communication, dated 24th February, 2001 and acting upon that reference, the government has validated the rules of 2001, notified on 31st December, 2001. She submits that as a matter of fact, the Tribunal’s direction was for obtaining the approval of the Chairman of the Tribunal with respect to the amendment carried out in the aforesaid rules of 2001 in the year 2003 vide Notification, dated 1.11.2003, but the approval of the Chairman with respect to that amendment was never obtained and thus, the amendment is of no consequence, as impliedly observed by the Tribunal in its impugned judgment. She says that in view of this development as also the fact that Tribunal having been abolished, now the judgment of the Tribunal cannot be given effect to, the petitioner may be permitted to withdraw the present writ petition with liberty to file a fresh petition, seeking fixation of his seniority, as also consequential promotion on the basis of the principal rules of 2001, notified on 31st December, 2001, ignoring the amendment in the rules, notified on 1.11.2003, as there is no approval by the Chairman of the Tribunal for such amendment. We accept the aforesaid submission. Consequently, the writ petition is dismissed. The petitioner shall be at liberty to file a fresh petition, in terms of the submissions made by his counsel, which have been noted hereinabove. ( R. B. Misra ), J. April 23, 2009(K) ( Surjit Singh ), J.