CWP No.4849 of 2008 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.4849 of 2008 Decided on : 23.03.2009 Surinder Poonia ....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY TEWARI Present:- Mr. Atul Lakhanpal, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Rajwant Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr. DAG, Haryana. Mr. R. S. Sihota, Sr. Advocate for Mr. H. P. S. Ishwr, Advocate for the respondent No.3. AJAY TEWARI J. The petitioner has challenged the order dated 19.3.2008 (Annexure P-2) whereby he has been transferred from Ambala to Fatehabad. The primary allegation of the petitioner is that this order has come only after 2 ½ months of his retransfer back to Ambala where he had been transferred at his own request after having spent 2 ½ years in Fatehabad. Learned Senior Advocate has relied upon the policy (Annexure P-3) whereby the Government has stated that a minimum tenure should fixed for all government servants i.e. not more than two years at one place. It is the stand of learned senior counsel for the petitioner that on this ground he should not be sent back to Fatehabad only after 2 ½ months. It is further not disputed that the said order of transfer has been implemented and the petitioner is now serving in Fatehabad since the end of March, 2008. CWP No.4849 of 2008 -2- Learned senior counsel for the petitioner has today limited his prayer to the extent that the petitioner having now spent more than 3 ½ years in Fatehabad (of course with a gap of 2 ½ months), as per the policy he deserves to be transferred, if not to Ambala then to any other station. In my opinion, this prayer of the petitioner deserves consideration. In the circumstances, respondent No.1 is directed to consider the case of the petitioner for transfer in view of the above within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. March 23, 2009 ( AJAY TEWARI ) ashish JUDGE