The Supreme Court protected the substantive rank, pay, and administrative status of a Rajasthan Principal District Judge who has faced seven transfers since 2021 and has now been posted as the Presiding Officer of a Labour Court-cum-Industrial Tribunal. Pursuant to the Supreme Court's order requesting the HC to consider his representation, he had been posted as Presiding Officer of the Labour Court, Jaipur Metropolitan-cum-Industrial Tribunal. The petitioner, however, expressed apprehension that the posting was not commensurate with his rank, status, and stature as a Principal District Judge. Addressing this concern, the Court directed in the order –“(i) The substantive rank of the petitioner shall continue to be that of Principal District Judge. Thus, the Supreme Court had requested the Acting Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court to consider the petitioner's representation sympathetically.