Supreme Court Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and Uday Umesh Lalit had on Tuesday last directed the Centre to take appropriate action within three months over the 2013 Bihar cadre officer Jitendra Gupta's (IAS:2013:BH) petition for the cadre transfer from Bihar to Haryana. Gupta was forced to knock at the doors of the SC following the Bihar government's general administration department's (GAD) failure to forward his application to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for transferring him to the Haryana cadre. "No action was taken by the GAD for more than a month," Gupta told a newspaper. A GAD official admitted Gupta had submitted a petition for cadre transfer in March this year. Gupta has reportedly said he moved the Supreme Court as his fundamental rights were violated when he was jailed on the basis of a false accusation of a graft. "I have also claimed a compensation of Rs 50 crore from the Bihar government for the harassment suffered by me and my family due to the arrest," he said. Gupta was arrested by the Bihar Police's vigilance investigation bureau in July last year when he was the SDO in Kaimur district, which was his first posting. Earlier, his driver Sanjay Tiwary and bodyguard Ashok Kumar were arrested near the SDO's residential office after they allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs 80,000 from a truck driver, Jaspreet Singh. However, the Patna high court quashed the FIR lodged against the SDO. Later, the Supreme Court upheld the high court order while disposing of the state government's appeal against the quashing of the FIR. Gupta, in the meantime, remained incarcerated in the Beur jail at Patna for 25 days. He was released after the Patna high court granted him bail on August 9. According to Gupta, he belongs to Firozabad in UP and cannot be allotted home cadre as per rules. He has applied for Haryana as his cadre as his wife belongs to Haryana.