‘Life is very attractive’: Why SC dismissed the petition against the transfer of doctors from Bangalore; A ‘privileged class’ observation. Bharat News
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear a petition by a group of government doctors to challenge its transfer orders from Bengaluru, stating that the city’s cosmopolitan lifestyle is “very attractive”, but not the basis for opposing transfer. A bench, including Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and K Vinod Chandran, saw that there was no bias due to transferring doctors from Bengaluru. The bench said, “The metropolitan life of Bangalore is very attractive. Other areas of Karnataka are also developed. You are a privileged class of society. What will happen to others if you oppose the transfer. We are not willing to entertain the appeal,” according to the news agency PTI. The court was hearing a petition filed by doctors against 2025, which controls the transfer of medical personnel in the state’s health and family welfare departments against the rules of Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of Transfer of Medical Officers and other employees). Earlier, the Karnataka High Court refused to stop the implementation of the 2025 rules. The High Court said that the rules were prepared under the powers given by Section 12 of the Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of Transfer of Medical Officers and other employees) Act, 2011, which does not determine any specific time difference between draft rules and their final form publication. The petitioners argued that the government provided only one week time to submit objections on the draft rules, claiming that it was insufficient. He also said that the draft rules have not mentioned “Greater Bengaluru” and that its inclusion in the final notification was impregnable under the law.
