ORDER/JUDGMENT – Heard through Video Conferencing.

Shri Utkarsh Agrawal, learned counsel for the petitioner.

Shri A. P. Singh, learned Deputy Advocate General with Shri Ankit Agrawal, learned Government Advocate, for the respondents/State.

2. Petitioner has filed this petition challenging transfer order dated 31-8-2021. By impugned order, petitioner has been transferred from Gram Panchayat Jamuniya Pathar situated in Janpad Panchayat Parasia to Gram Panchayat Kopakheda situated in Janpad Panchayat Amarwada in District Chhindwara.

3. Counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that petitioner cannot be transferred from one Janpad Panchayat to another Janpad Panchayat. He placed reliance on judgment passed by Division Bench of this Court in case of Gram Panchayat Hardi vs. Anil Dixit and others, reported in 2016(1) M.P.L.J. 29. It is submitted that in said judgment it has been held that Panchayat Secretary can be transferred within Janpad Panchayat. Counsel for petitioner also relied on judgment passed in Writ Appeal No. 671/2012, Gram Panchayat vs. State of M.P. and others, order dated 1-11-2012. In said case, transfer order was quashed. He further relied on judgment in case of A