WP(C) 2416/2011 BEFORE THE HON BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY The petitioner has approached the Court a second time seeking a direction for hi s transfer from Kharupetia Higher Secondary School, where he is presently servin g to the Marua Chowki High Madrassa in Sipajhar Block of Darrang District. He ha d earlier approached this Court through WP (C) No.537/2011, which was disposed o f on 2nd February, 2011 with the direction that the representation for transfer of the petitioner, will be considered and disposed of with a speaking order. 2. Ms. B Choudhury, learned counsel refers to the Annexure-2 document to sh ow that the Principal in-charge of the Kharupetia Higher Secondary School (respo ndent No.4) has refused to recommend the transfer of the petitioner from his sch ool as because the school is suffering from acute scarcity of teachers and any f urther depletion is going to adversely impact the teaching activities in the sch ool. 3. When the interest of the teacher who seeks transfer and the interest of the students who are going to be impacted by the teacher’s transfer has to be co nsidered together, the interest of the students must get precedence over the per sonal interest of the teacher. The Principal of the school is the best judge of the requirement of teachers in the school and the kind of impact the students wi ll suffer through depletion of the teacher’s strength. 4. In this circumstance, I see no scope to examine the view taken by the Pr incipal of the Kharupetia Higher Secondary School. Accordingly this second writ petition is not accepted and the same is dismissed. 5. However dismissal of the writ petition shall not foreclose the obligatio n of the official respondents to dispose of the petitioner’s representation on m erit, in terms of the direction given in WP (C) No.537/2011. 6. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly.