All the aforesaid three writ petitions have been filed by the respective writ petitioners assailing the legality and validity of the orders of transfer/transferring them from one place of another. It is their case that such orders of transfer are not founded on bonafide exercise of power, but have been issued illegally and arbitrarily and not in any public interest. According to them the orders have been issued due to extraneous consideration and out of sheer favouritism. Considering the allegations made in all three writ petitions towards assailing the orders of transfer, I have decided to dispose of all the three writ petitions by this common Judgment.

BRIEF FACTS LEADING TO FILING OF THE THREE WRIT PETITIONS W.R(C) No. 8921/03

2. The petitioner has been serving as Assistant Professor of Medicine in Guwahati Medical College and Hospital to which post he was promoted on 05.06.02. He has been transferred to Silchar Medical College, Silchar by the impugned order dated 21.10.03. When his representation dated 23.10.03 against the said order of transfer has not yielded any result, he has approached his court by filing this writ petition. According to the petitioner ther