In February 2023 two senior officers in Karnataka, the IPS officer D. Roopa and the IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri, had a public dispute. Both met the Chief Secretary, Vandita Sharma.
A day later, on February 21, both officers “were both transferred without a posting,” The Week reported. The South First added that “Both officers have been issued warnings by the state government.”
In 2018 the two most senior officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation accused each other. The special director, Rakesh Asthana, had complained against the director, Alok Verma, in August. The CBI then booked Asthana “for allegedly receiving bribes from middlemen.”
Late on October 23, The Week reported, the government “divested both officials of charge, sending them on leave.”
On May 1, 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore played Lucknow Super Giants in Lucknow. After the match the IPL found Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir both in breach of its Code of Conduct.
The IPL fined each of them. Kohli “has been fined 100 per cent of his match fee for breaching the IPL Code of Conduct,” the league announced, and Gambhir received the same fine. Each had admitted to a Level 2 offense.
On April 25, 2008, after an IPL match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Harbhajan Singh slapped S. Sreesanth. Harbhajan was “banned for the rest of the tournament.”
The cameras, The National later wrote, “caught Sreesanth crying uncontrollably immediately after it.”
Chugli. The Rekhta dictionary defines it as “malicious talk about someone who is not present, backbiting.” Its Hindi entry adds that it is the criticism or complaint about a person made to others in his absence, with the aim of harming him.
Chugalkhor. The one who does it. Rekhta gives “backbiter,” and in Hindi, the one who carries talk from here to there.
In Indian schools, the class monitor keeps order when the teacher leaves the room. A writer on Pingara remembers the monitor “standing near the blackboard, writing down names of the noisy ones like a mini-police inspector.”
A blog of the Delhi Public School in Palam Vihar describes the same habit. The monitor liked “writing the names of all the children who made noise in the class, so that later on teacher could punish them.”
On May 9, 2017, a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, found Justice C.S. Karnan of a High Court guilty of contempt. “We are satisfied to punish him by sentencing him to imprisonment for six months,” the bench said.
Karnan had made “scandalous corruption allegations against its sitting and retired judges,” LiveLaw reported.
“The Supreme Court, at its Full Court Meeting held on December 15, 1999 unanimously adopted the Report of the Committee,” LiveLaw reports. The report set out an in-house procedure for complaints against judges.
A complaint against a High Court judge goes to the Chief Justice of that High Court. If the matter is serious, “he shall forward to the CJI, the complaint and the response of the Judge concerned.”
In August 2020, 23 senior leaders of the Congress party wrote a letter to the interim party president, Sonia Gandhi, about the revival of the party.
In March 2021, as reported by Scroll, the senior leader P.J. Kurien said: “But the boundaries…should be kept in mind.” Ajay Singh said: “The letter we signed was for internal party democracy of which I still hold that it is right.”
In September 2005 the Indian cricket coach Greg Chappell sent an email about the captain, Sourav Ganguly, to the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. It reportedly said that Ganguly was not “physically or mentally” fit to lead the team. The email reached the media.
Chappell said: “I sent a private and confidential e-mail to the president of BCCI. It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so.”