Dhaka, Sept. 12 -- In the full text of a verdict the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that transfer order is an administrative order which cannot be challenged and cannot be treated as a punishment.

A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique delivered the verdict after hearing a leave to appeal petition filed by the Agrani Bank against a judgement passed by the Administrative Appellate Tribunal in Dhaka.

The apex court said, "There is no scope to hold the said order of transfer as a punishment. It is an Administrative order which cannot be challenged and cannot be treated as a punishment."

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