IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.9294 of 2009 Date of Decision : December 10, 2010. Satish Kumar Jagota .....Petitioner versus Punjab State Electricity Board and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Gurcharan Dass, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Madhu Dayal, Advocate, for respondent Nos.1 to 4. Mr.Vivek K.Thakur, Advocate, for respondent Nos.5 & 6. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner is working as a Revenue Accountant in the erstwhile Punjab State Electricity Board at Anandpur Sahib, now Punjab State Power Corporation. His wife is also serving with the respondents as an Upper Division Clerk and is stated to be presently on deputation with B.B.M.B. The petitioner impugns the order dated 4.6.2009 (Annexure P-13) vide which he has been transferred from Anandpur Sahib to Faridkot. One of the pleas taken by the petitioner to impugn his transfer is that it being a couple case, he cannot be distanced from his wife. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and keeping in C.W.P.No .9294 of 2009 2 view the scope of interference by a Writ Court in the transfer matters, I am of the considered view that no absolute command can be given to the respondents that the petitioner and his wife be posted together as a matter of right irrespective of the administrative or public interest. At the same time, it is desirable that in terms of their own policy guidelines, the respondents make an endeavour to keep both the husband and wife i.e., the petitioner and his wife, at one place or nearby place, if so possible. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with liberty to the respondents to re-consider the petitioner's case in the light of the observations made herein above. Till the appropriate orders are passed, the present arrangement shall continue. Dasti. December 10, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE