IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11446 of 2011 Ram Udgar Mahto Versus The State of Bihar & Ors . ----------- 02. 01.8.2011 The policy about not transferring a person in the last year of his retirement is based more on humanitarian consideration than administrative one. There is still no clear answer whether such a circular or policy is mandatory in nature or directory. It can never be urged or stated that in no situation can an employee be shifted in the last year of his superannuation, specially if the said employee would be required to be shifted for many a reasons. All those examples cannot be recorded in this part of the order and is not required to be recorded in view of the limited prayer which has been made by the petitioner that his application for reconsideration addressed to the Principal Secretary should be decided within a reasonable time-frame. Since the reasons to transfer the petitioner are better known to the authorities concerned and the petitioner does not want to this Court to get into all those aspects of the matter, the writ application is disposed of with a direction upon the Principal Secretary, General Administration Department, Government of Bihar, which is Respondent No.1, to communicate his decision with 2 regard to the prayer of the petitioner contained in Annexure-2, preferably within a period of six weeks from the date of production of a copy of this order. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)