JUDGMENT :

Suneet Kumar, J.

1. Heard Sri Apporva Tewari, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Kazim Ibrahim, learned counsel appearing for respondents No. 2 & 3 and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

2. Petitioner has raised challenge to the order dated 8 July 2020, passed by the second respondent, Director State Urban Development Agency (for short ‘SUDA’), repatriating the petitioner to his parent department. A further challenge has been raised to the consequential order dated 15 July 2020, whereby, the petitioner has been relieved from the post of Project Officer, District Unnao Development Authority Sultanpur, and order dated 29 July 2020, whereby, the fourth respondent has been posted on the said post.

3. The facts, briefly stated, for the purposes of the present writ petition, is that petitioner came to be appointed in 1987 on the post of Junior Clerk in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of U.P. Pursuant to a requisition issued by the State Urban Development Agency on 21 June 2017, petitioner applied for appointment on deputation for the post of Project Officer. The requisition was followed by an advertisement dated 26 June 2017, published in daily