RESPONDENTS HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR S.B.: HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE SUNIL KUMAR SINHA WRfT PETITiON fS) N0. 4333/2010 Rajeev Kumar Pandey, aged 47 ysars, son of Shri Bodh Narayan Pandey, Senior Assisiant, State Bank of India, Pendra Road, Distt. Bilaspur (C.G.) VERSUS Branch Manager, State Bank of India, Pendra Road, Distt. Bilaspur (C.G.) Assistant General Manager, State Bank of India, Region-6, Biiaspur (C.G.) Regional Manager, Regional Business Office (Region-6), 3" Floor, Vikas Bhawan, Nehru Chowk, Bilaspur (C.G.) WRIT PETiTION UNDERARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA ABpearance: Mr. Kamai Pandey, Advocate for the petitioner. ORAL ORDER (10.08.2010) SUNIL KUMAR SINHA.J. Heard on admission. Petitioner- Rajeev Kumar Pandey is working on the post of Senior Assistant, State Bank of India, Pendra Road, Distt. Bitaspur. By the impugned order dated 07.07.2010, he has been transferred from Pendra Road to Belgahna. Learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that as per e-circular (Annexure-P-4) clause 3, the petitioner should not have been transferred after 31st December, 2009. The circular (Annexure-P-4) is in relation to career progress scheme. tt is merely a guideline to the authorities concerned. The grounds contained in the cireular does not confer any right to an employee to claim issuance of a writ. Therefore, the petitioner has no legal right to pray for issuance of a writ on the contents of the above circular. During the course of argument, on being pointedly asked from counsel for the petitioner that from when the petitioner is posted at Pendra Road, he submits that the petitioner is posted at Pendra Road since 2004. This is not disputed that the petitioner is posted on a transferable post. "~»v."^ 'wss^1 I it! WRIT PETITION (S) N0. 43 10 Transfer is an incidence of servics. No pereon working on a transferable post can make his claim for posting at a particular place. It is for the employer to see as to who should be posted at which piace, keeping in mind the better functioning ofthe department as also the public interest. Unless the order of transfer is shown to be vitiated by maiafides or extraneous considerations or it is shown to be passed against any statutory Rule or the Act, normally such orders are not to be interfered by a Court of law, is the settled view of the Apex Court in many cases. For the foregoing reasons, 1 do not find any substance In the writ petition. The petition is liable to be dismissed and is hereby dismissed. Sd/- Sunil Kumar Sinha Judge