HC Directs Govt To Reconsider Transfer of Employees From AP

A two-judge bench of the Telangana High Court, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J. Anil Kumar, disposed of four similar writ petitions pertaining to the action of the State of Telangana in not according consent for permanent interstate transfers in pursuance of  letter addressed by the State of Andhra Pradesh to the State of Telangana. 

The petitioners in each of them contended that the same was illegal, discriminatory, and malafide. The petitioners sought



a direction from Telangana to accord consent for permanent interstate transfers of the Petitioners from Andhra Pradesh to Telangana and allow the petitioner to join in Telangana at the respective unit immediately after relieving the petitioner from the State of Andhra Pradesh. 

The court directed the state government of Telangana to consider the representations of the petitioners in all four writ petitions and disposed of the matter.