Judges transfer case: Plea in SC challenges collegium system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Bench had earlier allowed the intervention application moved by NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation that has filed a petition on the same issue before the Apex Court, and sought response from the Centre and Asthana in the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In light of the aforesaid, a reply was filed by the Centre as well as by Commissioner Asthana. The Central Government, in its response, stated that the appointment of Asthana has been made in public interest so as to supervise the Delhi Police force and provide effective policing post-the Northeast Delhi riots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a similar development, Commissioner Rakesh Asthana claimed some personal vendetta or a proxy war has been projected against him under the cloak of public interest litigations. He has contended that two organisations namely, Common Cause and Centre for Public Interest Litigation, have started a barrage of selective actions against him either out of some vendetta or at the behest of some undisclosed individual or rival or interest, either by way of consistently filing proceedings against him, or by spearheading a malicious campaign against him by way of tweets or articles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The development came after Delhi High Court division bench inquired about the meaning of a term used in context of service jurisprudence in the petition, which Advocate B.S. Bagga, representing the petitioner, was unable to explain and sought time to apprise the court on the meaning of the term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,64],"tags":[3554,1377,109687,109688,88755,108355,5353],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2021\/09\/23165345\/Rakesh-Asthana-min.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}