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 declined to entertain a plea challenging the Karnataka government’s decision granting cabinet rank to 42 MLAs and MLCs appointed as heads of boards and corporations, while directing the petitioner to pursue a review petition before the High Court instead of approaching the apex court.
The Karnataka High Court has stayed the investigation into the Dharmasthala mass burial case after four activists, who initially led the campaign demanding the probe, challenged the legality of the FIR. The court questioned the police’s action and stopped the SIT from summoning them till the next hearing.
