Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 50 · Decided 7 February 1994
K. Ashok Reddy ETC. v. The Government of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 50 · [1994] 1 S.C.R. 662
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 140/1994
- Decided
- 7 February 1994
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, J.S. VERMA, S.P. BHARUCHA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 222
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 222( 1}-Transfer of Judges and >- Chief Justice of High Court-Transfer by President in consultation with Chief Justice of India-Likelihood of bias and arbitrariness-Held: Apprehensions c unfounded-Transfers necessary for promoting better administration of to trans- fer-Peer committee of two senior Judges of Supreme Court and two Chief Justices of High Court Constitution of-Sufficient saf eguard-£/ements of ar- bitrariness and bias thus eliminated. D Articles 32, 136 and 226: Locus standi-Transfe"ed Judge alone can challenge the trans/
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