IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN THURSDAY, THE 19TH NOVEMBER 2009 / 28TH KARTHIKA 1931 WP(C).No. 33201 of 2009(U) ---------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ AJI, S/O. RAGHAVAN, SENIOR ASSISTANT, K.S.R.T.C KOLLAM, RESIDING AT PRATHIKSHA, VADAKKEVILA.P.O, KOLLAM. BY ADV. MR.C.RAJENDRAN RESPONDENT(S): ---------------------------- 1. THE KERALA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, PATTOM, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR. 2. THE DISTRICT TRANSPORT OFFICER, K.S.R.T.C DEPOT, KOLLAM. R1 & R2 BY ADV. MR. JOHNSON P.JOHN, SC, KSRTC THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 19/11/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Kss THOTTATHIL B. RADHAKRISHNAN, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = W.P.(C).No.33201 of 2009-U = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 19th day of November, 2009. JUDGMENT 1.The petitioner, a Senior Assistant in KSRTC, has been transferred on 11.11.2009 from District Transport Office, Kollam to Office of the Assistant Transport Officer, Karunagappally. Ext.P1 shows that such transfer is on administrative grounds. On 16.11.2009, the petitioner was relieved. 2.The plea of the petitioner against the order of transfer is that he has to take care of an 11 year old daughter who is the student of Mount Carmel School, Kollam. Petitioner got the employment on compassionate grounds, on his father dying in harness. The mother has moved the Kerala State Women's Commission against the petitioner alleging that the petitioner is not WPC33201/09 -: 2 :- taking care of her. The petitioner's wife has moved the Family Court and has even got an order of an attachment on some items of properties. The petitioner attributes the impugned transfer to be the mechanisation of the pressure tactics adopted by the mother. I am not impressed to hold so. At any rate, such plea is insufficient to interfere with the impugned order of transfer which is on administrative grounds. It is not stigmatic. It is not punitive. The petitioner had been working in Kollam for the last four years. The distance between Kollam and Karunagappally is so short that the petitioner can travel every day even to Karunagappally. With these, the writ petition has necessarily to fail. In the result, this writ petition is dismissed in limine. THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, JUDGE. Sha/2811