JUDGMENT :

Satyen Vaidya, J.

By way of instant petition, petitioner has taken an exception to office order dated 01.03.2024 (Annexure P-1), whereby petitioner has been ordered to be transferred from Govt. Sen. Sec. School, Trifalghat (Mandi) to Govt. Sen. Sec. School, Balag (Mandi), against respondent No.3.

2. The grievance, as raised, by the petitioner is firstly that his transfer is in violation of ‘Comprehensive Guiding Pinciples-2013’-for regulating the transfer of State Government employees, as he has not been allowed to complete his normal tenure at Govt. Sen. Sec. School, Trifalghat, secondly, his transfer was neither for any administrative exigency or in public interest, rather was a consequence of political interference by respondent No.4, on whose recommendation, the impugned order of transfer came to be issued.

3. Parties were put to notice, respondents No. 1 to 3, have filed written instructions dated 19.03.2024, issued by respondent No. 2. Respondent No. 3 has filed his detailed reply.

4. The stand taken by respondents No. 1 and 2 is that the petitioner has completed his normal tenure of three years and for maintaining so, it has been submitted that the petitioner has been