High Court provides relief to BSF sub-inspector on posting to Kashmir

Petitioner, posted in BSF’s 162 Battalion at Yelahanka, is due to retire in 2022

In a relief to a sub-inspector of Border Security Force (BSF), the High Court of Karnataka has set aside his posting to Kashmir during the fag end of his service when he was given posting in Bengaluru in 2018 after noticing his medical condition and the status of his wife, who is a cancer patient from past 12 years. “The BSF ought to have deployed a streak of sympathy in the peculiar facts of the case of the petitioner, notwithstanding the fact that the petitioner being a part of the battalion will have to move once the battalion moves,” the court said while setting aside his posting order issued in January 2021. Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Shivaji B. Bajantri of BSF’s 162 Battalion at Yelahanka.