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(ii) One has to keep in mind as to why the Transfer Committee comprising of high officials is constituted for recommending transfer of teachers. It is not without any reason. Purity in the realm of academics & the educational institutions has to be maintained. Academic freedom as individual freedom of the teacher, is a projection of ideological and the right to freely disseminate the thoughts, ideas & options of teachers in the exercise of its function, observed the Constitutional Court of Spain5. Political interference or affinity in the campus is not desirable in general and in the matters of transfer of teachers, in particular. An argument to the contrary will have pollution-potential. What is dismaying is the functional nature of impugned letter dated 13.05.2025 which precedes promulgation of transfer Guidelines. The said letter provides for MPs/MLAs recommending transfer of teachers, of course, subject to certain norms & restrictions. Nothing has been stated in the said letter as to under what authority it has been issued, to claim legal efficacy. Added, this letter (2007) 8 SCC 150 W.P. No. 3612 of 2025 (S-KSAT).