ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. The matter relates to promotion to the post of Chief Engineer, Level II in U.P. Jal Nigam. The U.P. Public Services Tribunal is specially constituted to consider the service grievances of government servants of the U.P. State. When government servants, Mr Om Narain Dwivedi and Mr S.C. Atri, approached the High Court of Allahabad at Allahabad Bench for redressal of their service grievances, two different Benches of the High Court by orders dated 23-3-1993 and 15-4-1993 directed to avail themselves of the statutory alternative remedy available from the Tribunal and in case they were unsuccessful in getting the relief, to approach the High Court. The respondent, who was also a government servant filed the writ petition in the High Court of Allahabad at Lucknow Bench seeking relief as regards his service grievance and the High Court entertained the writ petition and directed the parties to complete their pleadings. The appellant filed an application to dismiss the writ petition and direct the respondent to avail himself of the statutory remedy. The Division Bench, by the impugned order dated 19-1-1994, held that since the pleadings were complete, it was not nec