New Delhi: The Supreme Court has put an interim stay on criminal defamation proceedings initiated by senior IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri against Karnataka's senior IPS officer D Roopa.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal also directed the senior Karnataka-based civil servants not to speak to the media.
In its order on December 15, the bench stated, "The Criminal Case subject matter of this petition will not proceed further... Considering the fact that we are making an attempt to resolve all the disputes pending between the parties, none of them shall give any interview or any information to the media, social and print, in any form."
The bench stayed the proceedings after IPS officer Roopa filed an affidavit in terms of the previous order to delete controversial social media posts against IAS officer Sindhuri.
Sindhuri's counsel told the bench, in case, any of the social media posts in questions are found as not taken down, Roopa's counsel would be intimated about it.
The apex court now posted the matter for hearing on January 12, 2024.
Hearing the appeal, the top court had commented that if the officers continued to fight and refuse meditation, the State administration would come to a standstill. (with ANI inputs)
