IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION Nos:16964, 16980 & 17089 of 2000 Date:30.09.2010 WRIT PETITION Nos:16964 of 2000 Between: G.V. Ramanamurthy ..... PETITIONER AND The Executive Director, A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited, Hyderabad and another .....RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION Nos:16980 of 2000 Between: S. Bharathkumar ..... PETITIONER AND The Executive Director, A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited, Hyderabad and another .....RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION Nos:17089 of 2000 Between: T. Muralikrishna ..... PETITIONER AND The Executive Director, A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited, Hyderabad and another .....RESPONDENTS THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION Nos:16964, 16980 & 17089 of 2000 COMMON ORDER: 1. In all these writ petitions, the impugned orders under challenge are orders of transfer. Reliance is placed on the Award of the Labour Court, Visakhapatnam in I.D.No.113 of 1991 wherein the respondents are said to have been directed to maintain a separate seniority list confined only to Visakhapatnam District. It is the case of the respondents that the Corporation maintains State wide seniority list; and the Award in I.D.No.113 of 1991 has no application to the petitioner herein. 2. This Court would not ordinarily interdict an order of transfer unless it is satisfied that the said order is vitiated by malice or lack of competence in the authority passing the order of transfer. Neither of these contingencies arises in these batch of writ petitions. If the petitioners are of the view that the impugned orders of transfer fall foul of the Award of the Labour Court, the Industrial Disputes Act provides a machinery for redressal of such grievances. That, however, would not justify their invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India assailing the order of transfer. As a result of the interim orders of this Court, the orders of transfer have not been given effect to for the past 10 years. I see no justification, whatsoever, in interfering with the orders of transfer impugned in this writ petitions. 2. All the writ petitions, are accordingly, dismissed. No costs. ____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:30.09.2010. Gk. THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION Nos:16964, 16980 & 17089 of 2000 Date:30.09.2010 Gk