HON'BLE SRI ANIL R. DAVE, THE CHIEF JUSTICE and HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY Dated: 05-02-2010 WRIT APPEAL No. 63 OF 2010 Between: Smt. B. Ammaamma ... APPELLANT AND The Chairman, the A.P Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, Hyderabad and four others ... RESPONDENTS HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SRI ANIL R. DAVE AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT APPEAL No. 63 OF 2010 JUDGMENT: (per Sri C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, J) This writ appeal arises out of order dated 05-12-2009 in Writ Petition No. 25687 of 2009. The unsuccessful writ petitioner is the appellant in this writ appeal. The appellant and respondent No.5 are teachers of Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Schools. The appellant was transferred from a place called Kanchili to another place called Mandasa of Srikakulam District. Respondent No.5 who was transferred to Palakonda in July, 2009 was transferred to Kanchili in place of the appellant. The appellant filed Writ Petition No. 18320 of 2009 which was disposed of by this Court by order dated 02-09-2009 with the direction to the respondents to consider the representation of the appellant and take a decision thereafter. Thereafter, respondent No.1 passed order dated 05-11-2009 rejecting the appellant’s request for cancelling her earlier transfer order and retain her at Kanchili. This order was again questioned by the appellant in Writ Petition No. 25687 of 2009, which, as noted above, was dismissed by the learned single Judge. At the hearing, Sri K. Manik Prabhu, learned counsel for the appellant strenuously contended that the reasons given in order dated 05-11-2009 are purely an after thought. He submitted that the original transfer order passed by respondent No.1 clearly shows that the transfer was effected at the instance of respondent No.5 in order to accommodate him at Kanchili instead of continuing him at Palakonda. Though we find some force in the submission of the learned counsel, we are of the view that we cannot interfere in matters of transfer because transfer is not only an incidence but also a condition of service of every employee. It is an admitted fact that the appellant worked at Kanchili for about 12 years albeit in different spells. It is also not in dispute that there is a policy according to which the male teachers should be posted only in boys’ schools. While Kanchili is a boys’ school, Mandasa is a girls’ institution. This apart, the distance between Kanchili and Mandasa being 18 KMs, we do not find any justification for the appellant to resent her transfer from Kanchili to Mandasa. This Court will not sit in appeal over the transfer orders and except in cases of proven malafides, will not interfere with the transfer orders. The writ appeal is therefore dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ appeal, WAMP No. 171 of 2010, filed by the appellant for interim relief, is also dismissed. ANIL R. DAVE, CJ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 05-02-2010 ks