(1.) Aggrieved by the order of transfer, the petitioner has filed the instant petition for grant of the following reliefs:
(2.) The petitioner, who is posted as Kanungo at Changar, Sub Tehsil Panjhera, Tehsil Nalagarh, District Solan,H.P., has been ordered to be transferred to Domehar, Tehsil Arki, District Solan, vide order dated 26.08.2020 which is around 85 kilometres away from the present place of posting.
(3.) The transfer has been challenged mainly on two grounds; firstly that the petitioner has less than two years to retire and secondly the transfer has been effected during ban period i.e. 23rd July 2020.