Case Law Analysis
|Central Administrative Tribunal
Administrative Transfers Must Respect Compassionate Grounds & Article 14 | Gazetted Officer Transfer Denied Without Justification : CAT Ernakulam
CAT Ernakulam ruled that transferring a gazetted officer despite acknowledged compassionate grounds-such as long-term family separation and Scheduled Caste status-constitutes arbitrariness violating Article 14. The decision mandates that service exigencies cannot override personal hardship without documented, objective justification, setting a new standard for fairness in public sector transfers.