2018 (10) TMI 1831

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....am Koshy, J. 1. The present writ petition has been filed assailing the order of transfer dated 29.09.2018, whereby the services of the petitioner has been transferred from district Durg to district Surajpur. 2. The facts of the case leading to the filing of the present writ petition is that the petitioner was working as a Senior Cooperative Inspector at Durg for quite sometimes. The petition....

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....ason that by the impugned order only single person has been transferred and which by itself would show that the same has been with mala fide intention. It was further the contention of the petitioner that there was no administrative exigency whatsoever on the part of the respondents in the issuance of the impugned order. 5. To canvas the same, the counsel for the petitioner referred to various ....

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.... ground. What further has to be seen is that it is not a case where the order has been shown to have been passed at the instance of some complaints which have been lodged against the petitioner by some vested interests. Except for an averment made by the petitioner, there does not appear to be any strong material brought on record, with which the same could be presumed. 7. Undisputedly the serv....

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....der has been passed months after those inquiry report has been submitted by the petitioner. 8. The issue of transfer and posting of an employee, whose services, is transferable, has been considered time and again by the Apex Court and the various High Courts of this country and by now which stands settled by a catena of decisions, that it is entirely upon the competent authority to decide when,....