Case brief
What is this about?
Transfer of a State Government Upper Division Clerk (college employee) from Government General Degree College, Chapra (Nadia) to A.B.N. Seal College, Cooch Behar; claim for a convenient posting on the ground of a dependant son's 50% intellectual disability under an alleged State Government policy; policy not produced on record; no merits decided; writ petition disposed of with the observation that the authorities would be obliged to consider a representation highlighting the policy. Keywords: transfer, release order, convenient posting, disability, intellectual disability, psychiatric disorder, representation, State of West Bengal, W.P.S.T.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of without any comment on the merits; the petitioner is left to pursue a representation relying on the State policy, which the authorities would be obliged to consider in accordance with law.