<p>In a setback for Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed the transfer of 17 BBMP officials, including health inspectors and engineers.</p>.<p>In a letter to the Urban Development Department (UDD), Shivakumar had recommended the transfers. </p>.<p>Hearing a petition filed by senior health inspector Anis Fathima, whose name was on the transfer list, Justice NS Sanjay Gowda passed an order that Annexure E (the DyCM's letter to the UDD) should not come into effect till the next date of hearing.</p>.Siddaramaiah orders transfer of BBMP official.<p>The court's stay order comes at a time when the BBMP is seeing back-to-back transfers in different departments, mostly based on recommendations of either the chief minister or his deputy. </p>.<p>In an order issued in November 2021, the court had observed that interference in transfers amounts to politicisation of public office, resulting in putting efficient and good administration to peril. </p>
<p>In a setback for Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed the transfer of 17 BBMP officials, including health inspectors and engineers.</p>.<p>In a letter to the Urban Development Department (UDD), Shivakumar had recommended the transfers. </p>.<p>Hearing a petition filed by senior health inspector Anis Fathima, whose name was on the transfer list, Justice NS Sanjay Gowda passed an order that Annexure E (the DyCM's letter to the UDD) should not come into effect till the next date of hearing.</p>.Siddaramaiah orders transfer of BBMP official.<p>The court's stay order comes at a time when the BBMP is seeing back-to-back transfers in different departments, mostly based on recommendations of either the chief minister or his deputy. </p>.<p>In an order issued in November 2021, the court had observed that interference in transfers amounts to politicisation of public office, resulting in putting efficient and good administration to peril. </p>