Supreme Court of India

Dr. Ramesh Chandra Tyagi v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [1994] 1 S.C.R. 915
Decided 11 February 1994

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with this appeal we are constrained to observe that the appellant's behaviour with his superiors as appears from record was not of a responsible Government servant.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Service Law: Transfer-Appellant, a man of high achievement and dis­ tinction in Science-Transferred to a place neither suitable nor proper for him-Transfer order passed by authority not competent to do scr-Appellant's refusal to comply with trans/ er order-Disciplinary proceedings initiated--Ex paTte order of dismissal of appellant passed-Held, transfer order being not passed by competent authority and being contrary to mies was non est in the eye of law-Consequently order of dismissal falls automatically. The appellant, a man of high achievement and distinction in science, was offered a

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