different and uncomparable to the facts of the present case. The case before the Supreme Court was an unprecedented case where the respondent-State had terminated the services of about 2000 employees who had resorted to strike for their demands. Such employees had approached the High Court by filing writ petitions under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution. Before the High Court, the learned Single Judge by an interim order had directed the State Government that the suspension and dismissal of the employees without conducting an enquiry, be kept in abeyance until further orders and the employees were directed to resume duty. This order of the learned Single Judge was challenged by the State Government in writ appeals. The Division Bench set aside the interim order passed by the learned Single Judge, observing that without exhausting the alternative remedy of approaching the Administrative Tribunal, writ petitions were not maintainable. In such extraordinary circumstances of the case, the Supreme Court observed that although the judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in “ L.Chandra Kumar V. Union of India & Ors” (1997)3 SCC 261 was binding and that the Bench respectfully agreed with the same, however in the case in hand, if thousands of employees were directed to approach the Administrative Tribunal, the Tribunal would not be in a position to render justice to the cause. Thus, as observed by the Supreme Court “in very very exceptional
