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Bidari’s case will be decided on Monday

The case of former director general and inspector general of police (DG&IGP) SM Bidari is entering a decisive stage as the division bench headed by Justice N Kumar has reserved the order for Monday.

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The case of former director general and inspector general of police (DG&IGP) SM Bidari is entering a decisive stage as the division bench headed by Justice N Kumar has reserved the order for Monday.

On Friday, a day after the high court dropped Bidari’s plea to change the bench of his case, he withdrew his request.

The arguments in the main writ petition commenced post lunch session.

The counsel for Bidari argued that the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal had no jurisdiction to go into the empanelment of the candidates to the post of DG and IGP. Infant should not be aggrieved because his name figured in the empanelment list.
Counsel for Infant Uday Holla argued that for every selection, the criteria should be length of service, experience and good record of the candidate. However, Bidari’s records were questionable as many atrocities were committed against women when he was heading the special task force to capture forest brigand Veerappan. They were tortured during the investigation.
If Bidari cannot handle a 1,000-member task force, how he will handle a 90,000-strong police force, he asked.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had given a directive to the high court to reexamine its decision to quash Bidari’s appointment as DG&IGP.
Following this, Bidari had filed a petition in the high court requesting that the hearing of his case be referred to a bench different from the one that had quashed his appointment.
He contended that possible prejudice on the part of the division bench headed by Justice N Kumar might come in the way of fair judgment.
On March 30, the bench headed by Kumar had quashed Bidari’s appointment as DG&IGP.

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