Supreme Court of India
State of U.P. and Ors. v. Gobardhan Lal
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What the Court ordered
For all the reasons stated above, we set aside the judgments of the High Court under challenge. The appeals are allowed accordingly, with no order as to costs.
Judgment, p. 345 (concluding paragraph)
From the headnote
Service Law: Transfer-Government Employees-Conditions of service-Government 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 of mala 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 general directions to State Government in the matter of transfer or promotions/appointment of Government employees-High Court's order set aside.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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