No Escape Route for Odisha : P Chidambaram’s Submissions put the Process under Close Scrutiny for Compliance with Prakash Singh Judgement , Ex IPS Officer Yashovardhan Jha Azad’s Intervention Elevates matter Beyond a Single State-Specific Dispute into a Clearer Test of Adherence to the Long-Standing Police-Reforms Judgment

No Escape Route for Odisha : P Chidambaram’s Submissions put the Process under Close Scrutiny for Compliance with Prakash Singh Judgement , Ex IPS Officer Yashovardhan Jha Azad’s Intervention Elevates matter Beyond a Single State-Specific Dispute into a Clearer Test of Adherence to the Long-Standing Police-Reforms Judgment

By Our Correspondent BHUBANESWAR:  P. Chidambaram as Senior Advocate for the petitioner has alleged that the Odisha government is attempting to “smuggle”/include recently promoted ADGP-rank IPS officers into the DGP selection panel for the State’s next Director General of Police, in alleged breach of the Supreme Court’s Prakash Singh guidelines. This is not a criminal “smuggling” case but a challenge via PIL to the process for appointing Odisha’…