Case Law Analysis
|Calcutta High Court
Merit-Based Posting | Arbitrary Transfer of Medical Residents Violates Article 14 Without Justification: Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court has ruled that transferring a senior medical resident away from their merit-based posting without reasoned justification violates Article 14 of the Constitution. The petitioner must be reinstated to Hooghly Hospital as originally allotted under the centralized counselling process, reinforcing that merit-based allocation systems cannot be overridden capriciously by administrative discretion.