State Of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. vs Labh Chand

Whether a Single Judge of the High Court can entertain a second writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution on the same subject-matter after a Division Bench of the same Court had dismissed an earlier writ petition for non-exhaustion of alternate statutory remedy --- Held No; Whether the Government's power to compulsorily retire an employee under F.R. 56 is lost when the employee issues a notice seeking voluntary retirement from a future date --- Not directly addressed but impliedly answered in negative; Whether a pending departmental disciplinary enquiry inhibits compulsory retirement under F.R. 56 --- Not directly addressed but impliedly answered in negative.