IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Special Appeal No. 27 of 2011 Veer Singh …Appellant. Versus State of Uttarakhand and others. …Respondents. Present:- Mr. Ajay Veer Pundir, Advocate for the appellant. Mr. J.P. Joshi, Chief Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand. Coram: Hon’ble Barin Ghosh, C.J. Hon’ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. Barin Ghosh, C.J, (Oral) In the writ petition, appellant challenged his order of transfer on the ground that the same is mala fide inasmuch as the said order was passed as a counter blast to the litigation initiated by the appellant in this Court. The fact remains that the appellant has been transferred by the impugned transfer order after expiry of his normal tenure of posting requiring him to be transferred. As a result, the appellant has not been able to make out a case of his transfer being a counter blast to the litigation initiated by him against the respondents. In consequence thereof, the mala fide aspect of the matter does not find force on the materials before us. Merely because a litigation has been filed and in such litigation the appellant has either challenged his order of suspension or promotion of a colleague cannot be said to be a reason for effecting transfer by the impugned order. Those are not linked. That being the situation, there is no merit in the appeal. The same is dismissed. (Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.) (Barin Ghosh, C.J.) 04.3.2011 Avneet