IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL. Writ Petition No. 1951 (S/S) of 2001 Old Number. Writ Petition No. 40881 of 1999 Ramesh Chandra Joshi, Son of Sri Badri Dutt Joshi, Resident of Village Aamoli, P.O. – Garur (Baijnath) Tehsil and District – Bagheswar. …...Petitioner V e r s u s 1. Additional Director Agriculture and Soil Conservation (Uttaranchal) Directorate, Uttarakand, Uttar Pradesh, Pauri. 2. Deputy Director of Agriculture and Soil Conservation, Kumaon Mandal, Almora. 3. Deputy Director of Agriculture, Garhwal Mandal, Pauri. 4. Soil Conservation Officer, Bageshwar. 5. Pariyojna Adhikari (Agriculture) Gopeshwar, Chamoli. ……Respondents Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri S.S. Chaudhary, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned standing counsel for the respondents. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed to issue a writ in the nature of Certiorari quashing the transfer order dated 06.07.1999 relieving the petitioner from Bageshwar to Chamoli. Additional Director, Agriculture and Soil Conservation, Uttarakhand, Pauri on the basis of Government order dated 15.04.1999 has relieved the petitioner. Thereafter, vide order dated 07.07.1997, Deputy Director Agriculture, Soil Conservation, Almora has cancelled the transfer order dated 13.06.1997 and the petitioner remain posted at Bageshwar. In spite of the order dated 07.07.1997 passed by Deputy Director Agriculture, Soil Conservation, Almora, the Soil Conservation Officer, Bageshwar passed impugned dated 06.07.1999 in pursuance to the order dated 13.06.1997. Aggrieved by the order dated 06.07.1999 petitioner has preferred writ petition before Hon’ble Allahabad High Court and the Hon’ble Allahabad High Court on 23.09.1999 passed an order that petitioner shall not be moved from District Bageshwar provided he has not already been relieved. The present writ petition has been filed in the year 1999. About seven years have passed. By efflux of time, the writ petition has become infructuous, as such, is dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J) April 13, 2006 SKSharma