CWP No.6009 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 6009 of 2009 Date of Decision: April 22, 2009 Dr.A.K.Sethi ...... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ...... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Tewari Present: Mr.Varun Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner. **** 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Ajay Tewari, J. The petitioner has challenged his transfer order on the ground that even though the same is purported to have been passed in administrative exigency actually it had been passed because there was some complaint against him. Learned counsel for the petitioner has not been able to deny that a mere transfer, per se of a Govt. servant who is otherwise liable for transfer cannot be termed to be an order affecting the civil rights of a person. Consequently whatever be the motivation with which the transfer order was passed, a writ petition challenging the same would not be maintainable. The limited jurisdiction of a Court for interfering in administrative matters like transfer is only where order is obviously CWP No.6009 of 2009 2 arbitrary or it is a case of repeated transfers or some such rare situation. No such allegation has been made in the present petition. Consequently this petition is dismissed. No costs. (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE April 22, 2009 sunita