National Hydroelectric Power ... vs 1.Shri Bhagwan on 11 September, 2001
In National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
Ltd. v. Shri Bhagwan, (2001) 8 SCC 574, it was held
that: "No government servant or employee of a public
undertaking has any legal right to be posted forever
at any one particular place since transfer of a
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particular employee appointed to the class or category
of transferable posts from one place to other is not
only an incident, but a condition of service,
necessary too in public interest and efficiency in the
public administration. Unless an order of transfer is
shown to be an outcome of mala fide exercise of power
or stated to be in violation of statutory provisions
prohibiting any such transfer, the courts or the
tribunals cannot interfere with such orders as a
matter of routine, as though they were the appellate
authorities substituting their own decision for that
of the management, as against such orders passed in
the interest of administrative exigencies of the
service concerned.