HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA (IN THE CIRCUIT BENCH AT JALPAIGURI)
JAY SENGUPTA
Ankur Saha – Appellant
Versus
Bank of Baroda – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Jay Sengupta, J.
1. This is an application challenging an order of removal from service bearing reference No.- Rajkot: ZO: HRM: 04/807 dated 19.11.2022 including the memorandum, the articles of charges contained therein, the findings of the inquiry authority and the order of the Executive Director and Appellate Authority dated 03.05.2023 and all subsequent proceeding in connection with the purported disciplinary proceeding.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner joined the Bank of Baroda in the year 2011, in the MM2 Scale in Branch operations. After successfully completing tenure of around 10 years of uninterrupted, continuous and without a break service he was transferred under Inter Zonal Transfer exercise from Kolkata Zone to Rajkot Zone, Gujarat, on 05.09.2024 while being posted in the Scale of SM4 in Branch operations in the Siliguri Branch to Savarkundla Branch, Rajkot as Branch Head/Chief Manager. Accordingly, the petitioner joined his duty as the Branch Head at Savarkundla Branch that was at Rajkot Zone on 08.09.2021. The petitioner did not avoid and/or was reluctant to transferable job and/or extensive travel in connection with his
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