IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S.ANANDA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 11778 of 1997 Between: B. Bhagyalakshmi, W/o. B.S.V. Pratap, Clerk, R/o. Short Stay Home, Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, A.P. Branch, Sithanagaram, East Godavari District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1. Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, rep. By its Secretary, Kasturibagram, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 2. Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, Andhra Branch, Sithanagaram (post), via. Rajahmundry, rep. by its Provincial Prathinidhi, Sithanagaram, East Godavari District. 3. The Government of India, Ministry of Welfare, Central Secretariat, New Delhi, rep. by its Secretary. .....RESPONDENT Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ or order or directions, more in the nature of writ of certiorari, calling for the records relating to impugned Transfer Order dated 11.02.1997 issued by the 2nd respondent transferring me from Clerk Short Stay Home Sithanagaram to Amdapur Village at Nizamabad district as Grama Sevika at Amdapur Grama Seva Center and its subsequent letter dated 22.04.1997 and quash the same by holding the action of the respondents in transferring the petitioner from Clerk Short Stay Home Sithanagarm to Grama Seva Center as Grama Sevika at Amdapur village and consequently direct the respondents to retain and continue the petitioner as Clerk in Short Stay Home KGNM Trust Andhra Pradesh Branch, Sithanagarm, in the interest of justice. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. CH. SRINIVAS Counsel for the Respondent No.2: MR. M.V. SURESH Counsel for the Respondent Nos.1&3: None appeared. The Court made the following ORDER: This writ petition is filed by the petitioner questioning the order of transfer dated 11.02.1997 issued by the second respondent transferring the petitioner from Clerk Short Stay Home, K.G.N.M. Trust, Sithanagaram to Gramaseva Centre, Amdapur village at Nizamabad district as Gramasevika. 2. This Court, while admitting the writ petition, passed an order of status quo initially. But, later, when a counter-affidavit and vacate stay petition was filed on behalf of the respondents, the order of status quo has been vacated, in view of the fact that the petitioner has already handed over the charge of the post from which she was transferred. 3. In view of the above fact that the petitioner has already handed over the charge pursuant to the order of transfer, the writ petition has become infructuous and therefore the same is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ___________________ S. Ananda Reddy, J Date: 24.09.2004 va To 1. The Secretary, Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, Kasturibagram, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. 2. The Provincial Prathinidhi, Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, Andhra Branch, Sithanagaram (post), via. Rajahmundry, Sithanagaram, East Godavari District. 3. The Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Welfare, Central Secretariat, New Delhi. 4. Two CD Copies