IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN FRIDAY, THE 21ST JANUARY 2011 / 1ST MAGHA 1932 WP(C).No. 2128 of 2011(M) -------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ K.REMANI, CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OFFICER, INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHEME, KUNNAMANGALAM P.O., KOZHIKODE DISTRICT. BY ADVS. SRI.P.K.VIJAYAMOHANAN SRI.GILBERT GEORGE CORREYA RESPONDENT(S): -------------------------- 1. THE STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695001. 2. THE DIRECTOR, SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695001. 3. THE DISTRICT SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICER, KOZHIKODE, CIVIL STATION, KOZHIKODE. R1 TO R3 BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.SANDESH RAJA THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 21/01/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: sts S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ----------------------------------- W.P.(C) No.2128 OF 2011 --------------------------------------- Dated this the 21st day of January, 2011 JUDGMENT The petitioner is presently working as Child Development Project Officer, Kunnamangalam. The petitioner is due to retire on 31.3.2011. She has been transferred to a newly created post of Additional Child Development Project Office, Mukkom. According to the petitioner, at 33 of the newly created Child Development Project Offices, the Child Development Project officers of the parent office are given additional charge. Instead, in the case of the petitioner, she has been transferred to Mukkom. This is discrimination, in so far as she has been treated differently from other similarly placed persons is the petitioner's grievance. In the above circumstances, the petitioner has filed Ext.P4 representation before the second respondent. The petitioner seeks a direction to the second respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P4 expeditiously, taking into account the fact that the petitioner is due to retire on 31.3.2011. 2. I have heard the learned Government Pleader also. W.P.(C)No.2128/11 2 In the facts and circumstances of the case, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the second respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P4 as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within three weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, after affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner. S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE acd W.P.(C)No.2128/11 3