' The petitioner is a civil servant and is aggrieved of the order of his transfer from one place to another. The grounds of mala fide, political interference and the violation of Transfer Policy have been urged before this Court. All these pleas can be effectively raised in an appeal before the Punjab Service Tribunal which is now functioning and in view of the recent judgment passed by a Division Bench of this Court in case titled Munshi Muhammad Azam v. Assistant Commissioner etc. 1996 PLC (C.S.) 415, the impugned order of transfer and cancellation of transfer can be straightaway challenged in appeal before the Service Tribunal without making any departmental representation and if it is established before the Service Tribunal that order passed by departmental authority lacks bona fide or is otherwise arbitrary, fanciful or capricious, then the same can be struck down if it is violative of the relevant rules and instructions.
2. On being confronted with the availability of the effective alternate remedy and also of the jurisdictional defect in this petition due to the bar contained in Article 212(2) of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, the learned counsel for the petitioner has prayed for two weeks' time to enable the petitioner to file an appeal before the Punjab Service Tribunal.
3. This petition is disposed of with a direction that if not already relieved of the charge, the petitioner shall not be compelled to relinquish the charge for two weeks from today and in the meanwhile the petitioner, if so advised, may knock the doors of Punjab Service Tribunal for the redress of his grievance.