New DCP takes charge
The Hindu
V.V. Sai Praneeth is the new Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).
A 2018-batch Indian Police Service Officer, Mr. Praneeth is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani. He joined the police services as Assistant Superintendent of Police-raining in Kanniyakumari and then at Tiruvallur. Upon being promoted, he served as Superintendent of Police, Economic Offences Wing, Chennai. Mr. Praneeth has succeeded R. Srinivasa Perumal, who has been transferred as Superintendent of Police, Virudhunagar district.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.