Kerala EX-DGP moves SC

FORMER KERALA Police chief T P Senkumar has moved the Supreme Court against a High Court order dismissing his appeal against his transfer from the post of DGP, saying it was a clear case of “political vendetta”.

Senkumar filed the appeal against the Kerala High Court’s verdict that had upheld the Central Administrative Tribunal’s (CAT) order. The CAT had not found fault with the LDF government’s decision in 2016 to transfer Senkumar from the post of DGP to the post of chairman and managing director of Kerala Police Housing and Construction Corporation.

Senkumar, in his appeal, has said he was transferred because he had probed political murders involving the ruling party. “The HC failed to take into consideration the fact that in a prominent murder case of 2012, where a local leader T P Chandrashekharan was killed wherein after investigation, helped by the petitioner, as ADGP, several party members and leaders of the political party forming the present government were held guilty and therein sentenced to imprisonment.