BRAHM DEV SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Hemant Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned standing counsel for the respondents and Sri Vivek Saran, learned counsel appearing for U.P.S.R.T.C.

(2.) THE petitioner claims himself to be permanent driver in U.P.S.R.T.C. who has put his unblemished service of 22 years. THE petitioner vide his application dated 4.3.2000 informed the Assistant Regional Manager, U.P.S.R.T.C. that he is having some impaired vision in his eye and requested for medical examination. On the basis of the information of the doctors petitioners further requested that he may be given some suitable job other than driver of the vehicle which is permissible under the rules of the Corporation. THE Assistant Regional Manager, U.P.S.R.T.C. issued a memo dated 15.3.2000 addressed to the fourth respondent, i.e., Regional Manager, U.P.S.R.T.C., Allahabad that medical examination of the petitioner for determining his suitability for continuing him with his driving duties or to assign some other suitable work.

(3.) THE respondents have raised an objection that the petitioner is a workman and as such has an equal, efficacious and alternative remedy by raising industrial dispute by appropriate forum for redressal of his grievance raised in the present writ petition.