Mumbai: Tribunal stays transfer of Daya Nayak to Gondia

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) on Wednesday stayed the transfer of police inspector Daya Nayak to Gondia.
Nayak, known as an ‘encounter specialist’, and four other inspectors — Sachin Kadam, Nandkumar Gopale, Sudhir Dalvi and Kedar Pawar — were transferred recently out of the city on administrative grounds, but whispers were it was over a strife among senior IPS officers.
MAT member A P Kurhekar passed an order to reinstate Nayak to the Juhu unit of the ATS, where he was posted. Nayak, through his advocate Makrand Lonkar, had submitted that the transfer order issued by the DGP was void since the Establishment Board-II has no power and authority to transfer the petitioner as he was not due for transfer, he had not completed his tenure of three years in the present posting and his performance has been outstanding.