Just Chief Minister's Signature Not Enough For Promotion: Karnataka High Court
NDTV
The court said reasoning has to be recorded to post a lower cadre officer to a higher post.
The High Court of Karnataka has said that a transfer order bearing the signature of the Chief Minister does not become licit, till there is reasoning recorded to post a lower cadre officer to a higher post.
"We are constrained to opine that, even though such transfer orders bear the chief minister's signature on it, but such orders cannot be said to be a licit order as we find absence of reasons to enlighten the Chief Minister as to non-availability of eligible persons to be posted to said post and as to why a person of a lower cadre is posted to the said encadred place," it said.
A bench of Justices K Somashekar and Rajesh Rai K said this in their recent judgement on a petition filed by Karnataka Administrative Service (Senior Scale) officer Dr Prajna Ammembala.