SABIR KHAN Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ALL the aforesaid connected writ petitions have been filed for similar reliefs and have been heard together. In the writ petition (C) No. 55900 of 2013 following prayers have been made:

(2.) SRI Manu Khare, learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that this Court had passed interim orders in the instant writ petitions, as well as in large number of other connected matters, upon similar terms. Sri Khare has invited our attention to the order dated 31st of May, 2013, passed by the Lucknow Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No. (M/B) 4424 of 2013, which is reproduced:

(3.) LEARNED Standing Counsel appearing for the respondents -State, however, has raised an objection with regard to the maintainability of the writ petition itself on the ground that for the relief claimed in the present writ petition, the petitioner has an statutory alternative remedy of approaching the National Green Tribunal and therefore, the present writ petition is not liable to be entertained. The attention of the Court has been invited to Section 16(i) of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, which reads as under: