DGP Shankar Bidari worse than Muammar Gaddafi: HC

BANGALORE: Karnataka High court on Friday described Shankar Bidari as “worse than Saddam Hussain or Muammar Gaddafi” for alleged atrocities committed by the STF led by him during the hunt to nab forest brigand Veerappan and struck down appointment.

HC dismissed him as “without merit and substance”,and held his consequent appointment as “void and illegal.” The court said “in the facts of the case, we cannot find any infirmity in the said decision. It is just,” thus upholding the verdict of Central Administrative Tribunal.

HC also says that he was only deputy commander of the Joint Task Force of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to nab Veerappan and not “omnipresent and omnipotent like Saddam Hussain or Muammar Gaddafi.”

The court said,”Though he was not one of them, if what the two women (tribals) have said in their affidavit is true, he is worse than them” (Saddam Hussain and Muammar Gaddafi).

The court directed the government to appoint A R Infant in his place. “Otherwise they are answerable to the public of the state”.