Supreme Court of India

State of U.P. and Ors. v. Gobardhan Lal

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Reported as [2004] 3 S.C.R. 337
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat JJ.
Decided 23 March 2004

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Service Law: Transfer-Government Employees-Conditions of service-Government c employee filed a writ petition challenging his transfer order-High Court directed employee to file a representation before the Chief Secretary for appropriate orders-Correctness of-Held: Transfer of Government employees is incidental and implicit in the terms of appointment-Unless the order of transfer was an outcome ofmala fide exercise of power, such transfer order should not be lightly interfered with-Competent authority empowered to transfer Government employees in public interest-High Court not entitled to give

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