Supreme Court of India

Maj. Amod Kumar v. Union of India & Anr.

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Reported as [2018] 11 S.C.R. 28
Bench R. F. Nariman and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 6 September 2018

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion, the Petitioners have failed to make out any case for interference by this Court.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Service Law: Posting – Of personnel belonging to Army Service Co rps (ASC) in operational areas – Challenged on the ground t hat since ASC was mentioned as ‘non-operational’ corps in Lt. Col. P.K. Choudhary case, personnel of that corps cannot be posted in ‘operational areas’ – Held: All the streams of Army work and co-operate in order to form a cohesive organisation – Postin gs and transfers are a necessary incident of service – As per the oath administered to the personnel, they are duty bound to serve where ver they are ordered to – Matters of transfer should be left to the discretion of

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