RAJESH BINDAL J. - (1.) CHALLENGE in the present petition is to the transfer of the petitioner from Branch Office, Ferozepur to Satellite Office, Patti.
(2.) THE petitioner is working as Assistant Administrative Officer with Life Insurance Corporation of India. Earlier the petitioner had filed C.W.P. No. 11427 of 2012 - -Vijay Kumar Wadhwa v. Life Insurance Corporation of India in this court impugning the aforesaid order of transfer raising a plea that on account of illness, he may not be transferred to a far off place. The writ petition was disposed of by this court on 1.6.2012 with a direction to the respondent therein for consideration of the representation of the petitioner. The representation of the petitioner was considered and the same was rejected vide order dated 16.7.2012 mentioning therein that transfers are general in nature as 36 other officers along with the petitioner have been transferred. There was allegation of sexual harassment to one Ms. Paramjit Kaur on 25.11.2011, for which the petitioner had even appeared before the Women Committee formed at Divisional Office level at Amritsar on 27.2.2012. It is further noted in the aforesaid order that no medical report from 2009 onwards was submitted by the petitioner regarding his ill -health. Though the petitioner was relieved from Branch Office, Ferozepur on 16.1.2012, but till date he has not joined at new place of posting despite repeated communications to him. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner being ill should have been transferred to a place close to Branch Office, Ferozepur so that his family could be along with him.
(3.) AFTER hearing learned counsel for the petitioner, I do not find any merit in the submission made. Transfer is a condition of service. The petitioner has been transferred from Branch Office, Ferozepur to Satellite Office, Patti. Mere distance does not matter. It has been mentioned in the order passed after the earlier writ petition was filed by the petitioner that from 2009 onwards, the petitioner has not placed before the authorities any record to show his ill -health.;