Medical teachers cant be permanently transferred unless there is natural calamity or mass disease: Tripura HC

Agartala: Noting that unless there is any natural calamity or any catastrophe of mass disease, medical college teachers can not be transferred permanently, the Tripura High Court has recently cancelled the transfer orders of eight medical college teachers (doctors) and asked the state government to bring them back in their original place of posting by February, a lawyer said on Tuesday.

Bringing relief to the medical college teachers that had filed the petition challenging the state government's transfer order permanently transferring them to various centres from their place of work-

Senior lawyers Pijush Kanti Biswas and Purosattam Roy Barman defended the teachers in the high court after they filed petitions against the Tripura government's transfer orders dated August 3 last year.

It is reported that a single bench of Tripura High Court held in the favour of the medical teachers, prompting the government to file an appeal.The Tripura government filed four writ petitions before the division bench against the order of the single bench.