HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILA8PUR S.B. : HON'BLEMR.SATISHK.AGNIHOTRLJ. WMT PETITION (8) No. 3966of200S PETITIONER RESPONDENTS Dhaniram Jaiswal s/o Shri Late Jagatram Jaiswal, Aged 41 years, Incharge, Head master; Govt. Primary Sohool, Pump house, Korba, Distt. Korba(C.G.) VER8US 1. State of Chhattisgarh, llirough Secretary, School Edueation Department D.K.S. Bhawan, Raipur (C.G..) 2. Director, Public Instructfons, Chhattisgarh, Pension Bada, Raipur (C.G.) 3. Dist. Education Officer, Korba, DistrictKorba(C.G.) 4. Assistant Commissic®er, TrilmJ Development Department, Korba, Distt.Korba(C.G) Shri Manoj Kumar Dubey, Advocate for the petitioner, Shri Sushil Dubey, Govemment Advocate for the State/rsspondents. ORDER (Passedoal5thMarc 1, The petitioner, while working as Lower Division Teacher at Govemment Primary School, Pump House, Distriet Korba, was transferred to Middle School Kudrichigar, on the same terms and 2. 4. conditions vide impugned order dated 11.09-2001 (Annexure A/4). The Madhya Pradesh Administrative Tribuna! at Raipcr vid@ interim order dated 19.10.2001 directed to maintain status quo ia regard to the position of the petitioner as was prevailing on 06.10,2001. By virtue of the interim order the petitioner is continuing at tfae origina! place ofposting. as it may, with the passage of time this petition has beeome inlructuous as period of Iransfer is not applicable forever. At this point oftime, fhere is no question to examme the validity of the transfer order. However, the respondents are at Uberty to pass appropriate order keeping in view the public interest and administrative exigency, withowt insisting on compliance ofthe impugned transfer order. It is well settled principle of law that transfer is aa incident of service and it is for the employer to decide as to where a parlicular officer/employee be posted, keeping in view public interest as well as administrative exigency. This Court has limited jurisdiction to interfere in the transfer matter and tius Court can interfere only in the case of proved malafide, non- competence of airthority passing the transfer order and transfer order not being ia conformity witfa the roles and regulations. In view ofthe above, this petition stands disposed of. No order as to costs. Sd/- satish K. Agnihotri Amit