IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANTONY DOMINIC TUESDAY, THE 8TH JUNE 2010 / 18TH JYAISTHA 1932 WP(C).No. 16875 of 2010(H) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- M.ALIYARKUNJU, AGED 55 YEARS, S/O.MEERA SAHIB, RIVER VIEW HOUSE, NETTA, VALICODE, NEDUMANGAD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SMT.M.MADHUBEN RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP.BY THE I.G.OF REGISTRATION, KERALA. 2. THE DISTRICT REGISTRAR, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.ARAVINDKUMAR BABU THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 08/06/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: ANTONY DOMINIC, J ....................... W.P.(C).16875/2010 ....................... Dated this the 8th day of June, 2010 JUDGMENT Petitioner was working as Sub Registrar, Sub Registry Office, Kanyakulangara in Thiruvananthapuram District and has now been transferred and posted to Palode. Petitioner had requested for a posting at Karakulam, Sasthamangalam, Nemom and Kazhakkuttam stations. That request was ordered to be considered by Ext.P4 judgment in W.P.(C).11710/2010. The request was considered and Ext.P5 order has been issued rejecting the request of the petitioner. In Ext.P5, the reason for rejection of his request is stated thus:- “Palode station, where Sri.Aliyarkunju is presently posted, is only 20 Kms away from his place of residence. The Sub-Registrars working at Karakulam and Sasthamangalam have not completed three years service in the stations concerned. Kazhakkoottam and Nemom stations are 30 Kilometers away from the place of residence of the petitioner. Since Neyyattinkara is 16 Kms W.P.(C).16875/10 2 away fro Nemom, the person who had to be accommodated at Nemom was Sri.K.K.Mohanraj. Since Sri.Mohanraj had requested for a transfer to Thiruvallom also and Sri.Sathyasenan, Sub- Registrar, Thiruvallom had requested for transfer to Nemom, Sri.Sathyasenan was accommodated at Nemom and Sri.Mohanraj at Thiruvallom. Sri.R.Vijayan, Sub-Registrar, Vithura, who is residing at Kazhakkoottam, had requested for a transfer to Sub-Registry office, Kazhakkoottam and he was accommodated there. The Sub Registrars who are posted at Nemom and Kazhakkoottam are also having only less than two years to retire. All these 4 Sub-Registrars are accommodated at stations so that they can conveniently operate daily from their residences. Therefore, the present posting of Sri.Aliyarukunju, the petitioner, is more convenient to him than the stations to which he had applied for transfer. The above postings were made in view of administrative convenience and in public interest. In the above circumstances the request of Sri.Aliyarkunju in Ext.P3 representation is liable to be rejected and hence rejected.” W.P.(C).16875/10 3 2. No Government servant can insist that he should be posted at a place of his/her choice. The only question therefore is whether the rejection of his request is for valid reasons. Reading of Ext.P5 leads me to think that the reasons stated are valid and that the order is not vitiated for any vitiating circumstances. I see nothing objectionable in Ext.P5 warranting interference. Writ petition is accordingly dismissed. ANTONY DOMINIC, Judge mrcs