IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANTONY DOMINIC THURSDAY, THE 19TH NOVEMBER 2009 / 28TH KARTHIKA 1931 WP(C).No. 33191 of 2009(T) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------- SHERLY FIGARADO, W/O.CHRISTIE DISSILVA, AGED 55, NADUVILAPARAMBIL, GOLDEN ESTATE, VADUTHALA, KOCHI-23, ASSISTANT CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OFFICER, ICDS, MULLASSERY BLOCK, THRISSUR. BY ADV. DR.V.N.SANKARJEE SMT.R.UDAYA JYOTHI RESPONDENT(S): -------------------- 1. THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. STATE OF KERALA REP. BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, VIKAS BHAVAN, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. GOVT.PLEADER SMT.ANU SIVARAMAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 19/11/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: ANTONY DOMINIC, J. ================ W.P.(C) NO. 33191 OF 2009 (T) ===================== Dated this the 19th day of November, 2009 J U D G M E N T The challenge in this writ petition is against Ext.P1, by which the petitioner, an Assistant Child Development Project Officer at Integrated Child Development Service Office (ICDS), Mullassery, Thrissur District is transferred and posted to Neeleswaram in Kasargode District. 2. Petitioner submits that this is the third transfer this year and that she has only four months to retire. However, pleadings in the writ petition show that in 2008, petitioner was transferred from Ernakulam to Thevara and in January, 2009, she was transferred from Thevara to Angamaly from where in June, 2009, she is posted to ICDS, Mullassery. However, those transfers were never challenged by the petitioner. She accepted the transfer and joined the post. 3. As far as this writ petition is concerned, this Court is concerned only with the validity of Ext.P1. Ext.P1 shows that there was an existing vacancy at Neeleswaram and that the petitioner's transfer is to such an existing vacancy. Ext.P1 discloses an WPC 33191/09 :2 : administrative exigency and in such a case, this Court will not be justified in interfering with transfer. Writ petition fails and is dismissed. ANTONY DOMINIC, JUDGE Rp