Will DG&IGP Alok Mohan be expanded to ensure a two-year term?

In the normal course, the current Director-General and Inspector General (DG & IGP) Alok Mohan, Karnataka State Police Department, will retire on April 30 because after he completed 60 years on April 18, the corridor of power is very concealed and he may extend an extension until August 5, when he will extend it to his lawsuit under designated guidance to his case for two years. He was appointed DG&IGP on August 5, 2023.

Although no formal order has been issued, Mohan plans to schedule multiple meetings in May, including a May 3 review of the principal of the district police department, indicating that it was extended. Although some sources claim that the state government must write to the coalition government and that the extension must be approved. An extension that allowed him to get a two-year term was considered the new order, a senior official said.

The sources that believe the extension are considered to be a separate order and approval required by the Union Government, pointing to the reply of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at the recently concluded legislative session of Karnataka on March 26 and visited a copy of the Hindus on March 26. Responding to a question raised by BJP MLA Dr. CN Ashwath Narayan, as to why the state government had not named Alok Mohan among officers retired soon in a notification issued in July, 2024, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that the Supreme Court in WP 310/1996 (known as the Prakash Singh case), has said that the Head of Police Force should get a minimum of two years tenure and in light of the judgment was appointed as the DG&IGP of the Karnataka Police Department on August 5, 2023 until further orders.

Sources said the chaos continued, just like trying to overcome a two-year term, the Karnataka Police (Amendment) bill in 2012 was proposed, saying DG&igp should get a two-year minimum term, “holding an extended.” So far, while this continues to remain on the books, the Karnataka government reportedly issued an affidavit to the Supreme Court in 2019-20, about to implement guidelines in the Prakash Singh verdict, which provides a minimum term of two years.

After the affidavit, Neelmani N. Raju and Praveen Sood, who led the state’s police force, had served for more than two years before retirement and had no problem with this expansion. Now, Dr. Alok Mohan will retire before his two-year term, the issue is the first time to reach the forefront.