IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN FRIDAY, THE 14TH JANUARY 2011 / 24TH POUSHA 1932 WP(C).No. 1363 of 2011(U) ------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ----------------------- DR. P.M.MOHANAN, SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER, GOVERNMENT AURVEDA DISPENSARY, MOOPPAINAD, VADUVACHAL P.O., WAYANAD DISTRICT. BY ADVS. SRI.T.RAMPRASAD UNNI SRI.RAHUL VENUGOPAL RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 001. 2. THE DIRECTOR OF INDIAN SYSTEMS OF MEDICINES, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 001. R1 BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. ANTONY MUKKATH THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 14/01/2011,THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: sts S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ----------------------------------- W.P.(C) No.1363 OF 2011 --------------------------------------- Dated this the 14th day of January, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is an Ayurveda Medical Officer in the Department of Indian Systems of Medicine of the Government of Kerala. He has been working in the Wayanad district continuously for the past 13 years. His wife is also an Ayurveda Medical Officer, who was working for the last 13 years in Wayanad district and has been recently posted to Government Ayurveda College Hospital, Tripunithura. The petitioner seeks a transfer to Ernakulam district. Seeking this relief, the petitioner has filed Ext.P3 representation before the first respondent. The petitioner seeks a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P3 expeditiously. 2. I have heard the learned Government Pleader also. Having heard both sides, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the first respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P3 as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, after affording an opportunity of being head to the petitioner. S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE acd