The Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered arrest warrants against two officers who neither appeared nor filed a compliance report in a contempt petition, despite notices served a year earlier. The warrants are to secure their presence on September 21. No finding of contempt has been recorded.
Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam has moved the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order directing that Rs 5 lakh compensation awarded to Delhi University student Akriti Chaudhary be recovered from the salaries of the officers responsible for her NSA detention. The petition is yet to be listed.
The Supreme Court urged IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri and IPS officer D Roopa Moudgil to resolve their long-running dispute through mediation, observing that continued litigation was harming both careers. The Court made the remarks while hearing Sindhuri’s challenge to criminal defamation proceedings.
The Supreme Court stayed portions of the Allahabad High Court judgment against Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Sanjay Prasad, IAS. The Court suspended directions requiring adverse observations to be forwarded to the DoPT for consideration in future service-related assessments and assignments.
The Madras High Court has suspended IAS officer Anshul Mishra’s one-month jail sentence for contempt regarding land reconveyance. He must deposit Rs 25,000 without affecting his service record. Mishra’s appeal against the initial ruling will be heard on July 21, 2025, following delays in complying with earlier court orders.
IAS officer Dhiman Chakma, arrested on June 8, 2025, by Odisha Vigilance, faced corruption charges for accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe. Further investigations revealed Rs 47 lakh in unaccounted cash at his residence. His fall from grace, after successfully clearing UPSC exams twice, sparked debates on bureaucratic corruption in India.
