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Delhi High Court upholds order of the Union Government dismissing Gujarat IPS Officer Satish Chandra Verma, who probed Ishrat Jahan encounter case, one month before his retirement.

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“We find no merit in the writ petition. The same is accordingly dismissed….In view of the same, other writ petitions are rendered infructuous. The same are accordingly dismissed,” a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said.

Though initially Verma had challenged the departmental enquiry against him, however, he moved an application before the High Court last year to amend his petition to challenge the dismissal order which was passed during the pendency of the matter.

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Verma challenged the order of Union Home Ministry on August 30, 2022, imposing the penalty of "dismissal from service, which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under the Government” with immediate effect. He was to retire on September 30, 2022.

One of the grounds for dismissal was "talking to the media which dented the country's international relations". The disciplinary proceedings were initiated in 2016 after Verma spoke to media denying the allegations of torture in the Ishrat Jahan case probe.

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