CAT quashes IRS officer Sameer Wankhede's transfer from Mumbai to Chennai
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, made headlines for allegedly demanding Rs 25 crore from Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's family by threatening to implicate his son Aryan Khan in the Cordelia cruise drug bust case during his tenure in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai in 2021.
The principal CAT bench comprising Justice Ranjit More and member Rajinder Kashyap found procedural lapses and potential bias in the transfer decision issued by the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
The tribunal said while government officers had an all-India service liability, transfer policies must be implemented in a fair, transparent, and just manner.
«We are well aware of the facts that it is a settled law that a transfer, which is an incident of service, is not to be interfered with by the courts, unless it is shown to be clearly arbitrary or vitiated by mala fides or infraction of any professed norm or principle governing the transfer. However, the actions of respondents are such which do not fall within the policy framework laid by themselves,» CAT's February 20 order said.
The bench said the judgments cited by the revenue department wouldn't come to its rescue for it had «patently violated» the guidelines while transferring Wankhede.
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