SOUMYA DATTA Vs. STATE BANK OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner is an officer in the service of the State Bank of India (hereafter the bank). He also happens to be the President of the State Bank of India Officers Association (Bengal Circle) (hereafter the Association).

(2.) BY filing this writ petition dated June 26, 2013, the petitioner has questioned an order dated June 12, 2013 passed by the Deputy General Manager (P.B.B.U.) of the bank conveying to him the decision of the appropriate authority to transfer him to the Kamarhati Branch of the bank as Manager (Br. Ops) under B & O Office, Bidhan Nagar. At the time of issuance of the impugned order of transfer, the petitioner was posted at the local head office of the bank at Kolkata in its PBBU Department.

(3.) MR . Majumder has accordingly prayed for admission of the writ petition and stay of operation of the impugned order of transfer.