Puducherry LG Kiran Bedi approaches SC for maintenance of status quo before Madras HC order

Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi has approached the Supreme Court praying for maintenance of status quo prior to the Madras High Court order that curtailed her administrative powers.

The retired IPS officer has contended in her application that an appeal against the High Court’s order was admitted by the Supreme Court on May 10, and propriety demanded that status quo ante ought to have been maintained in light of the same.

In the application, Kiran Bedi contends that officers in Puducherry are being threatened of contempt action and a state of confusion has prevailed where the officers are in doubt regarding whether or not to implement the High Court’s orders.

This state of “administrative chaos” manifesting from the threat of contempt is the reason for the urgency of the matter, the application states. It adds.