Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 795 · Decided 6 September 2018
MAJ. Amod Kumar v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 795 · [2018] 11 S.C.R. 28
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 918/2017
- Decided
- 6 September 2018
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, INDU MALHOTRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 14, 21
Headnote
Service Law: Posting - Of personnel belonging to Army Service Corps (ASC) in operational areas - Challenged on the ground that since ASC was mentioned as 'non-operational' corps in Lt. Col. P.K. Choudhary case, personnel of that corps cannot be posted in Held: All the streams of Army work and co-operate in order to form a cohesive organisation - Postings and transfers are a necessary incident of service - As per the oath administered to the personnel, they are duty bound to serve wherever they are ordered to - Matters of
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