Gujarat HC rejects retired IPS officer's pleas on Assam encounter show cause notice

and a preliminary inquiry was instituted against him. Rai challenged his transfer as well as the inquiry against him in the New Delhi bench of CAT, which rejected his pleas.

He challenged the tribunal order in Delhi High Court. During the pendency of his plea before the Delhi HC, he was served with another show cause notice dated December 28, 2021.

Rai challenged the fresh show cause notice in Delhi HC, which, on January 28, 2023, disposed of his plea against a fresh show cause notice and granted him the liberty to pursue his grievance with the tribunal without specifying the bench.

Rai then filed an application before the Ahmedabad bench tribunal challenging the December 2021 show cause notice.

The Union government raised a preliminary objection with regard to the jurisdiction of the tribunal, after which the tribunal dismissed his application as well as his review petition, following which Rai approached the Gujarat High Court.

Rai had also sought voluntary retirement from service on August 23, 2018, which was not accepted by the authorities. He, thereafter, relinquished the charge of his office at Chittoor on November 30, 2018, after informing all concerned authorities.

He challenged the rejection of his VRS application in Ahmedabad bench of CAT and was subsequently placed under suspension on December 17, 2018.

He was served with a chargesheet dated January 14, 2019 for misconduct for allegedly relinquishing his office unauthorizedly.

In its order dated January 21, 2019, the Ahmedabad bench of Tribunal granted him interim relief and restrained the respondent from passing final orders in the disciplinary proceedings.

Rai as well as the respondents filed pleas in Gujarat High Court challenging the tribunal's interim order. In its August 2019 order, the HC directed both the parties to maintain status quo and admitted the matter.

Rai was handed over the investigation of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case in 2007 after which he had arrested senior IPS officers Vanzara, Dinesh MN and Pandian.