1 BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED: 28.11.2011 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE K.CHANDRU W.P.(MD)No.8466 of 2011 and M.P.(MD)Nos.1 and 2 of 2011 N.Om Murugan : Petitioner vs. 1.The Commissioner of Agriculture, Chepauk, Chennai. 2.The Additional Director of Agriculture (Personnel and Administration), Office of the Directorate of Agriculture, Chepauk, Chennai. 3.The Joint Director of Agriculture, Collectorate Campus, Dindigul. 4.The Joint Director of Agriculture, Collectorate, Trichy. 5.R.Manikandan, Assistant Seed Officer : Respondents PRAYER: Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records relating to the impugned order of the second respondent in Ka.Pa.Ni.3/74964/2011, dated 08.07.2011 insofar as the fifth respondent is concerned and quash the same and consequently, direct the second respondent to transfer the petitioner to Dindgiul District within a time frame. For Petitioner : Mr.R.R.Kannan For Respondents 1to4 : Mr.K.Mahesh Raja Government Advocate For Respondent No.5 : No Appearance O R D E R The petitioner has filed the present Writ Petition challenging the order of the second respondent, the Additional Director of Agriculture, dated 08.07.2011. In the annexure to the said order, the fifth respondent, who was working as the Assistant Seed Officer in the office of the Assistant Director of Agriculture at Marungapuri, Trichy District, was allotted to Dindigul Zone and the District administration was directed to pass appropriate orders. 2. The case of the petitioner was that he was working as Assistant Seed Officer, Needamangalam, Thiruvarur District and he was seeking for a transfer to Dindigul District and on the basis of the seniority maintained for transfer on request, he had earlier filed a Writ https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ 2 Petition being W.P.(MD)No.11238 of 2009 seeking for a direction to consider his representation for transferring him from Thiruvarur District to Dindigul District. That Writ Petition came to be disposed of by this Court on 05.11.2009 giving a direction to the second respondent therein to consider his representation without being influenced by the orders passed by this Court. Pursuant to the direction, the petitioner was informed that in future vacancies, on the basis of seniority, his name will be considered and when he found that the fifth respondent is being brought to Dindigul, he has filed the present Writ Petition challenging the same and after setting aside the same, he seeks for a direction to transfer him to Dindigul District. 3. When the matter came up on 01.08.2011, this Court ordered private notice and the Writ Petition is yet to be admitted. Today, when the matter came up, the learned Government Advocate brought to the notice of this Court a communication sent by the Deputy Director of Agriculture, Dindigul dated 11.08.2011, in which, it is stated that the petitioner was given posting order to Dindigul by the communication of the Additional Director of Agriculture dated 04.08.2011. The petitioner was already allotted to work at the Office of the Assistant Director of Agriculture, Ottanchathiram in the existing vacancy by a further posting order dated 10.08.2011. 4. In the light of the above stated position, nothing survives for consideration in the present Writ Petition. Hence, the Writ Petition stands dismissed as infructuous. Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petitions are closed. No costs. Sd/- Assistant Registrar (RTI) /True copy/ Sub Assistant Registrar(C.S) To 1.The Commissioner of Agriculture, Chepauk, Chennai. 2.The Additional Director of Agriculture (Personnel and Administration), Office of the Directorate of Agriculture, Chepauk, Chennai. 3.The Joint Director of Agriculture, Collectorate Campus, Dindigul. 4.The Joint Director of Agriculture, Collectorate, Trichy. +1. CC to Mr.R.R.Kannan, Advocate, SR.No. 41851 +1. CC to the Special Government Pleader, SR.No. 41886 SML Order made in W.P.(MD)No.8466 of 2011 Dated:- 28.11.2011 TR : 12.12.2011: 2p/7c https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/