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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:21629 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 19077 of 2024 Petitioner :- Vijay Bahadur Singh Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Abhishek Kumar Srivastava,Priyanka Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Ajay Bhanot,J. Heard Shri Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Subhranshu Shekhar, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondent- State. The petitioner was transferred from Agra to Saharanpur by
order dated 12.03.2024. Transfer is an incident of service. No employee has a vested right to be transferred to any place of their choice. Transfer policy has to subserve the larger interest of the institution. The transfer can be challenged only on limited grounds namely, infraction of statutory provision or malafide. None has been asserted or established before this Court. No violation of any statute has been shown. The transfer policy does not confer any enforceable rights upon the petitioners. Moreover, the writ petition has been filed after a delay of almost 11 months. No interference is warranted in the impugned order of transfer. In wake of the aforesaid, the writ petition is dismissed.
Order Date :- 14.2.2025 Ashish Tripathi Digitally signed by :- ASHISH NAYAN TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ASHISH NAYAN TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ASHISH NAYAN TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ASHISH NAYAN TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ASHISH NAYAN TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad