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The High Court of Karnataka has declined to enactment the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) caller bid of quashing the departmental proceedings initiated by the State authorities successful May this twelvemonth against elder IPS serviceman Alok Kumar successful transportation with the 2019 lawsuit of leaked audio clip of lawfully intercepted telephone calls.
A Division Bench comprising Justice B.M. Shyam Prasad and Justice T.M. Nadaf passed the interim bid refusing to enactment the CAT’s verdict portion proceeding a petition filed by the State government, which has questioned the correctness of the tribunal’s order.
“This tribunal is of the presumption that the enactment of the Tribunal’s bid would effect successful commencement of the proceedings which has remained stayed for the past 7 to 8 months, and that the circumstances are not exceptional to licence the same...”, the Bench observed successful its interim order.
Meanwhile, the Bench permitted the authorities to marque a plea for an aboriginal disposal of the petition.
The Chief Secretary, based connected the orders of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, connected May 9, 2025, had issued a notice, on with the complaint memo to Mr. Kumar nether Rule 8 (4) of the All-India Services (Discipline and Appeals) Rules, 1969. Mr. Kumar, who is presently an Additional Director-General of Police (Training), had challenged this earlier the CAT.
The CAT recovered that the May 9 determination was contrary to the instrumentality arsenic the erstwhile Chief Minister Basavara Bommai successful 2023 had recovered it not indispensable to clasp immoderate departmental proceedings and the contiguous Chief Minister had nary caller worldly for him to reappraisal the 2023 decision. The tribunal had besides noted that record enactment up earlier Mr. Siddaramaiah was support for communicating 2023 determination to the CBI and not for reviewing the earlier decision.
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has acceptable speech the complaint memo, issued by the State authorities this May, connected the orders of Mr. Siddaramaiah, to elder IPS serviceman Mr. Kumar. This is successful transportation with the 2019 lawsuit of leaked audio clip of lawfully intercepted telephone calls. Then Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai successful 2023 recovered it not indispensable to clasp immoderate departmental proceedings.
The CBI, which had conducted a probe into allegation of leaked audio-clip of lawfully intercepted telephone calls, though had filed ‘closure report’ earlier jurisdiction proceedings tribunal it had past recommended the State authorities to behaviour departmental enquiry connected the contented of leaked clips.
