HC TO K'TAKA GOVT: JUSTIFY SUSPENSION OF IPS OFFICER VIKASH

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday asked the state government to justify its action of suspending an IPS officer on June 5 on charges of dereliction of duty, after the stampede at Chinnaswamy Stadium during the victory celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru after the IPL tournament.

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THE Karnataka High Court on Thursday asked the state government to justify its action of suspending an IPS officer on June 5 on charges of dereliction of duty, after the stampede at Chinnaswamy Stadium during the victory celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru after the IPL tournament.

Hearing the appeal filed by the state government against the July 1 order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), which quashed the suspension of Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Vikash Kumar Vikash, the division bench of Justice SG Pandit and Justice TM Nadaf said ""you (government) have to justify whether it was proper to keep the officers under suspension, or whether shifting the officers to another post would have been sufficient.""