Invoking the writ jurisdiction of this Court, the petitioner has come with this writ application seeking a writ of certiorarified mandamus calling for the concerned records relating to the order of the third respondent dated 22.5.2004 bearing Ref.No.HRMD:VPA:2048:2004 and quashing the same insofar as it orders for transfer of the petitioner to Central Zone II, Bhopal of the respondent Bank as illegal, arbitrary, vindictive and in violation of transfer policy for officers of the respondent bank as communicated by the second respondent letter dated 20.1.2004 and consequently directing the respondent to retain the petitioner in Chennai region as per the transfer policy.

2. Affidavit in support of the application and counter affidavit are perused.

3. The case of the petitioner is that he joined the respondent bank on 3.5.1982 as Agriculture Field Officer; that he was posted at Mumbai; that his request for transfer to Chennai was not considered; that he was then transferred to Kerala in the year 1983; that subsequently, during October 1986, he was transferred to Tamil Nadu; that he was transferred to various branches within Madurai Region; that later, he was transferred to Che