1. - This writ petition has been filed against an order transferring the petitioner from Bikaner division to Lucknow Division of the Northern Railway. The order of transfer was passed by the Senior Personnel Officer, Northern Railway New Delhi on July 13, 1981 and was communicated to the petitioner by the Senior Divisional Personnel Officer, Northern Railway, Bikaner by his notice dated July 13,1981.

2. The contention of the learned Counsel for the petitioner is that there was a divisional cadre of Travelling Ticket Examiners (hereinafter called "the T.T. Es.") and that transfer outside the division was not permissible. Reliance was placed on a decision of the Delhi High Court in Prem Parveen v. Union of India 1971 SLR page 659 . In that case, it was alleged that the Directorate of Extention and office of the Regional Station were two separate cadre and the respondents conceded in their return that they constituted two separate cadres. It was on the basis of the admission of the respondents that a learned Judge of Delhi High Court held that normally it is expected that the Government employees, who join a particular cadre, would have the range of their transferability dete