Case brief
What is this about?
W.A(MD)No.1420 of 2025, Madras High Court Madurai Bench, decided 10.06.2025, Coram G.R.Swaminathan and K.Rajasekar JJ. Departmental appeal against interim abeyance of transfer of VAO S.Jeyalakshmi (Kothankulam Village, Thiruppuvanam Taluk) ordered by RDO Sivagangai on 07.03.2025; single-parent status and college-going children held insufficient grounds to stall a transfer; single Judge order in W.P(MD)No.8628 of 2025 set aside; undertaking-based participation in general counselling; regularisation of absence and salary settlement within two months; Clause 15 Letters Patent; Additional Government Pleader N.Satheesh Kumar; Prasanna Vinoth for respondents.
What did the court decide?
Writ Appeal allowed; order of the learned single Judge in W.P(MD)No.8628 of 2025 dated 04.04.2025 set aside; no order as to costs; connected miscellaneous petition (C.M.P(MD)No.8437 of 2025) closed. Subject to the writ petitioner reporting for duty at the transferred place by 11.06.2025, she may participate in next month's general counselling; she may seek regularisation of her absence, with salary settlement directed within two months.