Delhi HC nixes former IPS officer Satish Verma’s plea

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected the plea of former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Satish Chandra Verma challenging his dismissal from the service just a month before his retirement. Verma had assisted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its probe into the Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter’ case. He was dismissed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. In September 2022, Delhi HC declined to put on hold the Centre’s decision to dismiss Satish Chandra Verma.
The bench of Justices Satish Chander Sharma and Sanjeev Sachdev on Wednesday dismissed the plea of Verma and said the court find no merit in the plea. The dismissal order passed by the competent authority was upheld. Former IPS Verma’s dismissal came on August 30 last year, a month before he was due to retire on September 30. One of the grounds for Verma’s dismissal included talking to the media which “dented the country’s relations with neighbouring countries”.