THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G.KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY CONTEMPT CASE No. 189 of 2011 Dated: 22-12-2011 Judgment: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Goda Raghuram) This contempt case arises out of a complaint of willful disobedience of the interim order of this Court dated 26-10-2010 in WPMP No. 24289 of 2010 in the writ petition granting interim direction as prayed for. The interim direction was to the respondents to consider the case of the petitioners for transfer to the Hyderabad division (from the Nanded Division), in terms of their options and as per the Zonal PNM decisions made in the 121st Zonal PNM meeting, pending the writ petition. The contempt complained of is that the respondents have not transferred the petitioners/applicants to Hyderabad Division from Nanded in terms of the PNM decision. To establish the contempt, reference is made to the communication dated 27-4-2011 which states that pursuant to the order of this Court the case was examined by the competent authority who has not agreed to relieve them immediately due to acute shortage of manpower; and that request transfers of the petitioners/applicants will be considered as per priority along with other staffs who have registered for request transfer in phased manner, as and when the staff position improves. In the light of the fact that the entitlement of the petitioners to be transferred to Hyderabad Division from Nanded Division has not been rejected, per se, but the decision to transfer has not been taken on account of asserted manpower shortage in Nanded Division, no contempt is perceived. As no contumacious conduct is established, the contempt case is dismissed. __________________________ GODA RAGHURAM, J 22nd December, 2011 ________________________________ G.KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY, J GRR