Belt force personnel can be transferred anywhere in country: HC

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: High Court has held that authority has the discretion to transfer any belt force personnel to anywhere in the country.
The observation was made by Justice Tashi Rabstan while dismissing the petition filed by Tarsem Kumar challenging his transfer on the ground that Inspector General of Police CRPF does not have any competency to transfer the petitioner from Jammu to Jharkhand, in as much as, the powers, if at all vested with the Inspector General of Police, has to be exercised only to make transfers within the sector”.
After hearing ASGI Vishal Sharma for the CRPF, High Court dismissed the petition with the observations that petitioner is serving in the belt force, therefore, the discretion lies with the respondents authority to transfer any belt force personnel to anywhere in the country.