SOMA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE instant petition has been filed by the petitioners with the prayer that retrenchment of the petitioners be declared null and void and the respondents may be directed to reinstate the petitioners in service.

(2.) BRIEF facts of the case are that the petitioners were initially appointed on muster roll basis on the post of Beldar and Cooli on the dates mentioned in the writ petition. The services of the petitioners were allegedly terminated on the dates mentioned in the writ petition, in violation of provisions of Section 25 F, G and H of the Act of 1947.

(3.) THE remedy under Article 226 of the Constitution of India being, in general discretionary, the High Court may refuse to grant it where there exists an alternative remedy, equally efficacious and adequate.