After the Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Kerala Chief Secretary on the contempt petition filed by former Kerala DGP TP Senkumar for not implementing the judgment, the Kerala Government reinstated the senior IPS officer as state’s director general of police (law and order).
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan signed the related file on Friday evening and the government order would be issued on Saturday, sources said.
Earlier on the day, the Supreme Court slapped a cost of Rs 25,000 on the State for filing a clarification application on its April 24 verdict for reinstating TP Senkumar as DGP, viewing it as a ploy to delay the reinstatement.
A Bench of Justices M B lokur and Deepak Gupta issued notice to Chief Secretary Nalini Netto on the contempt plea and fixed the matter for hearing on May 9.
Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Senkumar, told the bench that the state government has “mocked” at the judgement passed by the apex court.
The counsel representing Kerala told the bench that the process to reinstate was going on and the State Government has also filed a review petition in the apex court.
“That is not an argument. We will see the review petition when it will come up for hearing before us,” the bench told Kerala’s counsel.
The State’s counsel requested the bench not to impose cost and said that he would withdraw the application.
“We are dismissing it with costs. We are permitting them to withdraw it (application) with a cost of Rs 25,000,” the bench said.
The Bench said that it had not gone into the allegations of malafide raised by Senkumar earlier before it but the state was “somehow confirming” the same by filing such application.
The SC had on April 24 ordered the reinstatement of Senkumar, saying he was transferred by the ruling lDF Government “unfairly” and “arbitrarily”.
Senkumar had on April 29 moved the apex court seeking contempt action against the State Government and its Chief Secretary alleging “wilful, deliberate disobedience” of its order reinstating him.