Deprecating the State government for its unhealthy practice of unlawfully posting an official as in-charge director of the Directorate of Prosecutions and Government Litigants, the High Court of Karnataka has removed H.K. Jagadeesh from the post of in-charge director by issuing a writ of quo warranto.
Noting that though Mr. Jagadeesh was appointed as an in-charge director for six months in August 2019 but was continued for more than three-and-a-half-years in the post, the court said that “no statutory functions of the office can be discharged by the official holding additional charge and thus, it has been virtually rendered dysfunctional”.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice Krishna S. Dixit passed the order on March 11 while allowing a PIL petition filed in 2023 by Sudha Katwa, a city-based advocate. The petitioner had questioned the legality of posting Mr. Jagadeesh as an in-charge director.
