Subordinate-court judge transfers — CIC

Subordinate-court judge postings/transfers: aggregate data disclosable; reasons behind specific transfer may be §8[1][j] protected.

Subordinate judge transfer lists disclosable; individual reasons protected under §8(1)(j).

Subordinate-court judge postings/transfers: aggregate data disclosable; reasons behind specific transfer may be §8(1)(j) protected.

Name-designation-posting data of subordinate judges is disclosable (public record maintained by the HC Registry). Reasons behind a specific transfer — discipline, preference, health — are personal information under §8(1)(j) subject to §8(2) balancing.

subordinate court, judge transfer, CIC, §8(1)(j)

These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.

• Public servant posting/transfer orders — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2019)
• §6(3) transfer — 5-day rule strict construction — SC (SC 2022)
• High Court Registry records — CIC (CIC 2022)
• Irrelevant Information — CIC directive line (CIC 2010)
• Court-directed non-disclosure — §8(1)(b) — CIC (CIC 2018)

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Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.