Agartala, Feb. 7 -- Tripura High Court on Wednesday upheld the removal of a judicial officer from service for influencing his transfer through the political quarter.
Upholding the order discharging a probationary judicial officer for approaching a Union Minister for transfer recommendation and making a false statement in connection with his overstay of leave.
A division bench of Justices T Amarnath Goud and Justice Biswajit Patil rejected petitioner Koushik Karmakar's claim that he had not approached the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Pratima Bhoumik for recommending his transfer.
However, the Court found that Karmakar in May 2022 had made a prayer before the Registrar General of the High Court for his transfer to ...