RAKESH TIWARI,J. - (1.) HEARD counsel for the parties.
(2.) THE petitioners, who are working as Supply clerks (Aapurti Lipik) in the office of Food and Supply Department, Ballia Sadar and in another Tehsils of Ballia, have challenged the order of transfer dated 28.2.09 passed by Up Aayukt (Food/Khadya), Azamgarh Region, Azamgarh appended as Annexure 4 to the writ petition, by which they have been transferred from district Ballia to district Azamgarh, on the ground that a Food Scam has taken place in which investigation by Central Bureau of Investigation is being conducted. It is submitted that services of the petitioners are governed by U.P. Food and Civil Supplies (Supply Branch) Ministerial Service Rules, 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules of 1979).
(3.) SAMPURN Gramin Rojgar Yojna sponsored by the Central Government, was enforced in district Ballia by the State Government with intention to uplift the living standard of poor persons. A food scam in the aforesaid Yojna came into light in district Ballia.;