The Karnataka authorities Saturday issued a notification for the appointment of senior IPS officer Dr M A Saleem because the full-time Director Common and Inspector Common of Police (head of the police power) of Karnataka.
The order got here shut on the heels of the state assuring the Karnataka Excessive Court docket about appointing an everyday state police chief after Saleem was appointed because the interim police chief following the retirement of the previous police chief, Alok Mohan, on Could 21, 2025.
Saleem, 59, a 1993-batch IPS officer, who held concurrent cost of the CID unit of the state police after his appointment as interim police chief in Could, is third in seniority rank amongst DGPs in Karnataka after Praveen Sood (1982 batch), who’s the CBI director, and Prashant Kumar Thakur (1992 batch), who’s in state service.
On August 28, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket had disposed of a public curiosity litigation (PIL) filed over the Could 21, 2025, appointment of the senior Karnataka IPS officer of the rank of director common of police, Saleem, because the in-charge police chief of the state.
The PIL filed by Advocate Sudha Katwa was disposed of by a division bench of the excessive court docket comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakru and Justice C M Joshi after Karnataka Advocate Common Okay Shashikiran Shetty advised the court docket that the state would problem a discover inside every week of receiving an IPS officers’ empanelment checklist from the Union Public Service Fee.
The PIL had sought the speedy completion of the method of appointment of an everyday police chief for Karnataka in accordance with the directives issued by the Supreme Court docket within the 1996 Prakash Singh case. The PIL had additionally sought to expedite the empanelment technique of IPS officers as per SC directives and “choice and appointment of an everyday DG and IGP on the earliest.”
The Karnataka HC was knowledgeable on Thursday that an interim in-charge DG and IGP had been appointed by way of the Could 21, 2025, order on account of the state awaiting an UPSC order of empanelment of senior IPS officers eligible for the publish of the police chief in Karnataka.
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“The rationale for the delay is the UPSC not sending the names,” the Advocate Common advised the court docket, whereas including {that a} UPSC empanelment committee assembly was held on August 26 and that the state had communicated to the UPSC to ship the ultimate checklist on the earliest.
“A gathering of the empanelment committee was held on August 26, 2025. The state authorities has since communicated with the UPSC for the structure of a panel… inside a interval of 1 week of receiving the communication, the mandatory motion will likely be taken. In view of the above, we don’t contemplate it essential to problem any additional instructions. The current petition is disposed of,” the HC division bench stated.
The PIL had sought to ban Saleem from exercising duties because the DGP and IG of the Karnataka police through the pendency of the writ petition. The petitioner claimed that the Karnataka authorities had delayed speaking with the UPSC for the empanelment checklist.
Saleem holds a PhD in ‘Visitors Administration in Metropolitan Cities’.