IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash’s counsel, Senior Advocate Dhyan Chinappa, instructed the Karnataka Excessive Court docket Friday that the state authorities’s stand on the difficulty of suspension of IPS officers within the wake of the June 4 Bengaluru stadium stampede was a case of “damned for those who do, damned for those who don’t.”
He was referring to prior statements of the federal government concerning the steps it had taken for the occasion, in distinction with questions raised by the state within the earlier listening to on Thursday on why the police took safety steps in an occasion with out permission.
The statements had been made within the context of the federal government’s enchantment in opposition to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order quashing the suspension of a number of IPS officers, which is at the moment being heard by a bench consisting of Justices T M Nadaf and S G Pandit.
Within the earlier listening to this Thursday, the state counsel had referred to the police as having acted as “servants of RCB (Royal Challengers Bengaluru” in making safety preparations for the June 4 occasion close to Chinnaswamy stadium, additionally questioning why this was executed as an alternative of prohibiting the occasion when there was no official permission.
Arguing for the opposite aspect, Chinappa had raised questions concerning the process of the suspension and whether or not it was being executed in a “punitive” method, which might not be permissible underneath current rules, noting that the IPS officers had been scapegoats within the incident.
On the outset of Friday’s submissions, Chinappa acknowledged that it could be “unlucky” if the assertion that the police had behaved as “servants” was the stand of the state somewhat than the argument of the counsel.
Relating to the suspension, he stated, “First you say I wish to discover out the causes… pending discovering the causes there’s dereliction of responsibility? If there was materials the federal government might have stated that is the idea on which we now have come to a conclusion, there’s dereliction of responsibility, we’re suspending.”
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Chinappa added that the assertion made within the report submitted to the excessive court docket concerning “accountability” indicated that the suspension was executed as a punishment.
Referring to the report on the stampede filed earlier than the excessive court docket by the state, he added, “How can they flip round and say… who requested them to do bandobast, they’re servants of RCB… However is that the stand of the Authorities earlier than this court docket?”
Whereas concluding his submissions for the day, Chinappa acknowledged, “It’s one factor if the officers weren’t there on the web site, in the event that they had been sleeping on responsibility… it’s one other factor once they had been there, managing the gang, and an incident occurred.”
Chinappa’s arguments on behalf of IPS officer Vikash are set to conclude on Monday (July 21).
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Eleven folks died and a number of other extra had been injured within the stampede outdoors the Bengaluru cricket stadium throughout an occasion referred to as to have fun the maiden Indian Premier League trophy win for RCB.