Nagarajan T v. The State of Tamil Nadu represented by its Secretary
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: transfer order; Assistant Agricultural Officer; Department of Agriculture – Farmers Welfare; Joint Director, Theni; Assistant Director of Agriculture, Kaveripattinam, Krishnagiri District; Bodinayakannur Block; Article 226; Writ of Certiorari; sympathetic consideration; accommodated in the same place; writ petition closed; WP(MD)No.36862 of 2025; WMP(MD)Nos.29310 and 29312 of 2025; 02.01.2026; B. Pugalendhi J.; T. Nagarajan; T. Cibi Chakraborthy; G. V. Vairam Santhosh. Useful for: tracing the disposal of a service-related transfer-order challenge in the Tamil Nadu Agriculture – Farmers Welfare Department, where the grievance was resolved through departmental accommodation and the petition was closed without adjudication of the merits.
What did the court decide?
Recording the learned counsel's submission that the petitioner's request, together with those of others, was considered sympathetically by the department and they were accommodated in the same place, the Court closed the writ petition and, consequently, the connected miscellaneous petitions.