SC pulls up Bengal over UPSC's role in DGP’s appointment

The Supreme Court  has pulled up the West Bengal government for repeatedly seeking autonomy to select the Director General of Police (DGP) and for dispensing with UPSC's role in preparing a panel of senior officers from which the state can choose its DGP, as was ruled in the SC's landmark judgment in the Prakash Singh case. The Court refused to entertain an application of the West Bengal government against UPSC's role in state DGP’s appointment.

“Don't file applications like this," the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Nageshwar Rao told the Bengal government on Friday. The bench told the West Bengal government that it has been making repeated applications, containing the same prayers despite rejection of such applications earlier. "This is an abuse of the process," the Supreme Court said, adding that it is not expected from a state government. The Supreme Court agreed to make West Bengal a party to the main matter and said that it is for the implementation of the directions in the Prakash Singh case and would be taken up by the court in October.