2025:UHC:7972-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL THE HON’BLE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. G. NARENDAR AND THE HON’BLE JUSTICE MR. SUBHASH UPADHYAY Special Appeal No.231 of 2025 9th September, 2025 Sandeep Goyal ---Appellant Versus State of Uttarakhand & Others ---Respondents -------------------------------------------------------------- Presence:- Mr. Navneet Kaushik, learned counsel for the appellant Mr. P.C. Bisht, learned Addl. C.S.C. for the State -------------------------------------------------------------- JUDGMENT : (per Mr. G. Narendar, C.J.) 1. Heard learned counsel for the appellant and the learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. 2. Perused paragraph nos.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the impugned judgment passed by the learned Single Judge. 3. Petitioner has been serving in Haridwar for the last three decades and has now been transferred out of Haridwar to Dehradun. The claim that he being a senior employee and compulsory transfer is prohibited has been considered by the learned Single Judge. The prohibition 1 2025:UHC:7972-DB is applicable only to the transfer of a senior employee from an accessible area to a remote area. In the instant case, the transfer is from one accessible area to another accessible area. In that view, the prohibition canvassed by the learned counsel for the appellant, is misplaced and without substance. 4. The appeal, being devoid of merit, is accordingly, rejected. (G. NARENDAR, C. J.) (SUBHASH UPADHYAY, J.) Dated: 09.09.2025 R/SS 2