IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL. Writ Petition No. 301 (S/S)2007 Jogendra Singh S/o Sri Niranjan Singh, Senior Field Assistant (H), Office of the Deputy Inspector General, S.S.B. Sector Headquarter, Ranikhet, District Almora. ---- Petitioner. Vs. 1. Union of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Through the Director General of S.S.B., R.K. Puram, New Delhi, 2. Assistant Director (EA-II) S.S.B., R.K. Puram, New Delhi, 3. The Inspector General of S.S.B., FTR, Lucknow, 4. The Deputy Inspector General, S.S.B., Ganiadeoli, Ranikhet. ----Respondents. Sri M.S. Chauhan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri N.S. Pundir, learned Standing Counsel for Union of India/respondents. Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri Mangal Singh Chauhan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri N.S. Pundir, learned Standing Counsel for Union of India/respondents. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:- i. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari to quash the impugned orders dated 19.07.2006 and 7th Aug. 2006, which have passed by the respondents and annexed as annexure no.1, 2 ii. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to transfer the petitioner where the Kendriya Vidhyalaya is available, otherwise career of the children shall be spoiled, who are studying in Kendriya Vidhyalaya, Ranikhet, iii. Issue any other order or direction which this Hon’ble High Court may deem fit and proper in the fact and circumstances of the case, iv. Award cost of the petition to the petitioner. Vide order dated 7th August 2006, the petitioner, who is working as Senior Field Assistant (H) in the office of Deputy Inspector General, S.S.B. Sector, Headquarter, Ranikhet, district Almora, was transferred to the office of A.O. Kheri (E). The petitioner applied to the authority concern for staying of the aforesaid transfer order on account of his family problems and the respondents, in turn, considering the difficulties of the petitioner had deferred the transfer of petitioner upto 31st March 2007. The petitioner has further moved application on 20.12.2006 before the Director General S.S.B. Headquarter, R.K. Puram, New Delhi with a request to change his place of posting, a copy of which is annexed as annexure no. 4 to the writ petition. During the course of arguments, learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the respondent i.e. the Director General, S.S.B. Headquarter, R.K. Puram, New Delhi may be directed to take decision on the application of the petitioner dated 20.12.2006 within the period prescribed by this Court. 3 The prayer is innocuous. Accordingly, the Director General, S.S.B., R.K. Puram, New Delhi is directed to take decision on the application of the petitioner dated 20.12.2006 contained as annexure no. 4 to the writ petition, sympathetically within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. With this direction, the writ petition is finally disposed of. Civil Misc. Urgency application no. 534 of 2007 stands disposed of accordingly. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J.) April 18, 2007: NCM: