Supreme Court stayed Karnataka High Court’s Order quashing the Appointment of Shankar Bidari As DGP

The Supreme Court of India on 24 April 2012 stayed the Karnataka High Court’s ruling to quash the appointment of Shankar Bidari as director general of state police. The Karnataka High Court, while hearing to the petition against the appointment of Bidari as the DGP, had dubbed him as "worse than Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi."

The Apex Court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice C K Prasad asked the state high court to examine afresh the matter and dispose it of before 31 May 2012.

The Karnataka high court in its 31 March 2012 ruling had quashed Bidari's appointment on the ground that he was indicted by the National Human Rights Commission as he was the deputy commandant at the time of the alleged atrocities committed by the Joint STF of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, set up to hunt down Veerappan.