IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17881 of 2007 Between: Puchalapalli Bhagyamma W/o.Nageswer Rao S.C.C.Limited, Area Hospital RG-I Godavari khani, Karimnagar District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Additional General manager (PERS)/CORP The Singareni Collieries Company Limited, Kothagudem 2 The Director (PA&W), Singareni Collieries Comapny Limited, Kothagudem collieries Khammam District 3 The Additional Chief Medical officer, The Area Hospital RG-I, Ramagundam, Karimnagar district .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue a writ order or direction more in the nature of writ of Certiorari calling for the records relating to the office order vide Ref.No.CRP/PER/PM/3294/1221 dated 11.7.2007 and quash the same in so far as the petitioner is concerned and further direct the respondents to continue the petitioner at S.C.C.Limited, Area Hospital RG-I, Godavari Khani, Karimnagar District and to pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.J.R.MANOHAR RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.NANDIGAM KRISHNA RAO The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17881 of 2007 ORDER: The petitioner is working as a Senior Staff Nurse in the Hospitals of Singareni Collieries Company Limited. In the year 2002, she was transferred from Yellandu to Ramagundam. After she was transferred to that place, the petitioner made a request in the year 2004, to transfer her to Yellandu, explaining her family problems. As though, acting on that representation, the respondents transferred the petitioner to the main hospital at Kothagudem, vide orders, dated 11.07.2007. She was denied the benefit of customary concessions, on the ground that it was a transfer on request. The petitioner challenges the said proceedings. The respondents filed a counter affidavit, justifying the order of transfer. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing counsel for the respondents. It is true that the petitioner did make a request to the respondents to transfer her to Yellandu or a nearby place, way back in the year 2004. A transfer made three years thereafter cannot be treated on the basis of that very request, particularly in the context of denying the customary concessions, including settling allowances. At the same time, the petitioner cannot have any valid grievance about the order of transfer, since it was effected five years after the date, on which, she joined at Ramagundam. The hardship pleaded by the petitioner about the education of children, may have become relevant, when the impugned order came to be passed, but not at this stage. This Court does not find any basis to interfere with the order of transfer, except as regards the denial of the customary concessions. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of, upholding the order of transfer, but directing the respondents to extend the benefit of customary concessions to the petitioner, treating it as a transfer on administrative grounds. There shall be no order as to costs. _________ 01.04.2008 JSU ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TRK} THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17881 of 2007 Date: 01.04.2008 JSU