Case brief
What is this about?
Chhattisgarh High Court, Bilaspur; WPS No. 1791 of 2023; decided 17/07/2025 by Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad. Petitioner Smt. Pooja Dubey, Rural Medical Assistant, challenged two transfer orders (30.9.2022 and 13.2.2023) issued by the State Department of Health and Family Welfare. Interim stay of 13.3.2023 meant she continued at her original posting; the Court found the transfers had lost efficacy by afflux of time, quashed Annexures P1 and P2, and left the State free to transfer her afresh if exigency arises. Keywords: transfer order quashed, afflux of time, interim stay, government servant transfer, exigency, Rural Medical Assistant, Chhattisgarh.
What did the court decide?
Transfer orders dated 13.2.2023 (Annexure P1) and 30.9.2022 (Annexure P2) quashed; liberty reserved to the State to pass fresh transfer orders in case of exigency, uninfluenced by this order; writ petition disposed of.