The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has set aside the charge memo, issued by the State government this May, on the orders of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, to senior IPS officer Alok Kumar. This is in connection with the 2019 case of leaked audio clip of lawfully intercepted phone calls. Then Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in 2023 had found it not necessary to hold any departmental proceedings.
Timing of memo
The “timing of the charge memo legitimately invites doubt about the propriety of exercise” of process of conducting departmental enquiry as it was
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