IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11206 of 2011 Ram Dahin Sharma son of Late Binda Singh, resident of Village Dourma Police Station Anti, Dist. Gaya Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. Principal Secretary, Rural Works Department, Govt. Of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Chief Engineer-2 Bhagalpur (Head Quarter Patna) Rural Works Department. 4. The Superintending Engineer, Rural Works Circle-2, Gaya, Dist. Gaya. 5. The Executive Engineer, Rural Works Department Work Division No. 3, Gaya. 6. The Secretary Cabinet Secretariat and Coordination Department, Govt. of Bihar. 7. Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat and Coordination Department, Govt. of Bihar. ----------- 02. 20.9.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner has been stationed and posted at Gaya for the last 35 years. A fact accepted in the statement made in the supplementary affidavit. The chain of transfer effected by the respondent (Annexure-4) is not limited to the petitioner but includes many a persons who have been transferred on the ground of exigencies of service. A plea is being raised by the petitioner that he is an office bearer and cannot be transferred. He is entitled to the benefit of the circular of the Government where an office bearer can claim such benefit at least once in the life time. In addition to that, it is also urged that he is suffering from kidney ailment and that could be also one of the circumstance where he should be allowed to continue in Gaya. 2 Counsel representing the State informs the Court that the petitioner has avoided his transfer in the past twice over, once in 2001 and other in 2003 on similar grounds. Obviously if the age of the petitioner indicated in the affidavit of the writ application is taken into consideration, petitioner does not want to leave his place of present posting because he is about 58 years of age and would surely like to retire from Gaya if given a chance. Rest of the defence put up is a cover up. In absence of any breach of law or rules as such, this Court is not inclined to interfere this time with the decision of the respondents to transfer the petitioner as no employee has a right to stay put at one station and same place all his life. Writ is dismissed. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)