{"id":48195,"date":"2017-05-10T03:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48195"},"modified":"2017-05-10T03:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:50:57","slug":"sc-closes-contempt-proceedings-keralas-chief-secy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-closes-contempt-proceedings-keralas-chief-secy","title":{"rendered":"SC closes contempt proceedings against Kerala&#8217;s chief secy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47555\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-upholds-life-term-3-killing-gujarat-shiv-sena-leader\/sc-upholds-life-term\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SC upholds life term\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47555 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?resize=299%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC closes contempt proceedings against Kerala's chief secy\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC closes contempt proceedings against Kerala&#8217;s chief secy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today closed the contempt proceedings initiated against chief secretary of Kerala on a plea by senior IPS officer T P Senkumar, who had alleged delay in his reinstatement as the state police chief.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said since Senkumar has been reinstated as the Director General of Police (DGP) in pursuance to its earlier order, &#8220;nothing survives&#8221; in his contempt plea.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court also accepted the &#8220;unconditional apology&#8221; tendered by Kerala&#8217;s chief secretary Nalini Netto who on May 5 was directed by the bench to respond to Senkumar&#8217;s plea.<\/p>\n<p>Senkumar&#8217;s counsel had earlier told the bench that the state government has &#8220;mocked&#8221; at the judgement passed by the apex court, which had on April 24 directed reinstatement of the senior IPS officer as the state police chief.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel representing Kerala had on May 5 told the bench that the process to reinstate was going on.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court had on April 24 ordered the reinstatement of Senkumar, saying he was transferred by the ruling LDF government &#8220;unfairly&#8221; and &#8220;arbitrarily&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Senkumar had on April 29 moved the apex court seeking contempt action against the chief secretary alleging &#8220;wilful, deliberate disobedience&#8221; of its order reinstating him.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today closed the contempt proceedings initiated against chief secretary of Kerala on a plea by senior IPS officer T P Senkumar, who had alleged delay in his reinstatement as the state police chief. A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said since Senkumar has been reinstated as the Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,39445,117,80,47726],"class_list":["post-48195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-keralas-chief-secy","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC closes contempt proceedings against Kerala&#039;s chief secy - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court today closed the contempt proceedings initiated against chief secretary of Kerala on a plea by senior IPS officer T P Senkumar, who had - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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