{"id":147419,"date":"2021-11-18T20:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147419"},"modified":"2021-11-19T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T05:37:32","slug":"transfer-as-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transfer-as-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer as punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, the Supreme Court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/collegium-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collegium<\/a> recommended the transfer of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/theres-a-need-for-transparency-in-transfer-of-judges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There\u2019s a need for transparency in transfer of judges<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>What are the questions raised by the transfer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-routine-matter-or-a-punishment-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A routine matter or a punishment post?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: var(--heading--font-family); letter-spacing: var(--heading--letter-spacing-h5); color: var(--global--color-primary);\">What does the Memorandum of Procedure for judicial appointments and transfers say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It says that a proposal to transfer a High Court judge can only be initiated by the CJI. In addition, the views of \u201cone or more knowledgeable Supreme Court judges\u201d are taken. These views are considered by the five-member Collegium. This system was put in place as a safeguard against\u00a0executive\u2019s arbitrariness<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/questions-for-sc-chief-justice-banerjees-transfer-from-madras-hc-again-points-to-the-opaqueness-of-collegium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questions for SC: Chief Justice Banerjee\u2019s transfer from Madras HC again points to the opaqueness of collegium<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Transfer as punishment&#8221;<\/strong> published in\u00a0<strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>18th November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the Supreme Court\u00a0collegium recommended the transfer of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court to the Meghalaya High Court. Read more:\u00a0There\u2019s a need for transparency in transfer of judges What are the questions raised by the transfer? Read here:\u00a0A routine matter or a punishment post? What does the Memorandum of Procedure for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transfer-as-punishment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transfer as punishment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-147419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704784965},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}