Won\'t stop transfers without hearing government\'s contentions: Telangana HC

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday reiterated that it would not stay GO 317 issued by the state government, which prescribed norms for transfers of government employees and teachers. However, the court assured that transfers of all employees, who had come to the court, would be the final outcome of the writ petitions.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili said without hearing the contentions of the government, it would not issue interim orders to stop transfers of the petitioners, who approached the court.

The bench was adjudicating a batch of writ petitions filed by teachers, secondary grade teachers and school assistants working in various government schools in Telangana, challenging GO 317 dated 6-12-2021.

Senior counsel Surender Rao and other counsels Vishnuvardhan Reddy, Rachana and Chikkudu Prabhakar who appeared for the petitioners, requested the court to issue interim orders and that the cases may be posted at an early date for hearing as there was an urgency in the matter. Actually, the cases were posted to April 4 for hearing.

J. Ramchandra Rao, additional advocate general, informed the court that counter affidavits had been filed in some writ petitions and further apprised the court that all employees, who had been transferred to new places of work, had reported for duty.