ORDER :

1. Petitioner, who has put in a long and spotless public service and who is shortly going to retire by superannuation on 30.04.2022, is knocking at the doors of Writ Court for assailing the order dated 10.03.2021 (Annexure-C) whereby the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter ‘Tribunal’) has negatived his challenge to the transfer order dated 08.01.2021 (Annexure-A3) in Application No. 10044/2021; petitioner has also laid a challenge to the subsequent order dated 21.01.2021 (Annexure-A7) in companion Application No. 10120/2021 whereby the private respondent Mr. Mohammed Zubair, the Registrar of a University has been granted additional charge of the post to which petitioner was transferred.

2. After service of notice, the respondent-State and its Officials are represented by learned Government Advocate; the respondent Mr. Mohammed Zubair is represented by the private counsel.

3. Brief facts:

(a) Petitioner, then a Tahasildar Grade-I, at Savanur Taluka was displaced without posting in February 2020 for about eleven months; fortunately, the DPC having cleared his name, he came to be promoted to the cadre of KAS (Junior Grade) with retrospective effect from 27.11.2020