( 1 ) THE petitioner while serving as Senior Foreman Grade S-4 was promoted to the cadre of Executive Grade of E-l vide proceedings of the respondent Company with effect from 1-1-1995 and he was posted to Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Project, Kahalgaon, Bihar State. On 26-6-1995 the petitioner made a representation to the respondents 1 and 3 for his retention at Ramagundam on the ground mat his wife was serving as pharmacist in the hospital run by the Management of Singareni Collieries Co. , Ltd. , The representation of the petitioner was rejected on 28-7-1995. At that juncture, this writ petition was filed seeking a writ in the nature of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in transferring the petitioner to Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Project, Bihar State as illegal and for a consequential direction to the respondents to place the petitioner in Executive Gradcofe-1 with effect from 1-1-1995 on par with others and retain him at Ramagundam project with all consequential benefits. The petitioner foregoing the promotion continued to work at Ramagundam in the cadre of Senior Foreman Grade S-4. Again, in the year 1996 the petitioner came under the zone of c