(1.) Aggrieved by the order of transfer, the petitioner has filed the instant petition for the grant of following substantive reliefs:
(2.) The respondents have placed on record the instructions dtd. 7/5/2021 wherein it is claimed that in order to rationalize the health services to the people through Medical Officers specialized in the field of Surgery, the petitioner has been transferred from Civil Hospital, Karsog, District Mandi to Regional Hospital, Kullu, District Kullu because two Surgeons were posted at Civil Hospital, Karsog and, therefore, one of them had to be urgently transferred to Regional Hospital, Kullu, where there was no Surgeon.
(3.) It is vehemently argued by Mr. Rajiv Rai, learned counsel for the petitioner that apart from the individual interest of the petitioner, even the general public at Karsog is aggrieved by his transfer and places strong reliance on the news cuttings that have been appended with CMP No.5666 of 2021 {Annexure P-3} (colly.).