The Madras Excessive Courtroom, on Thursday (September 11, 2025), dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition difficult the appointment of G. Venkatraman because the Director Normal of Police/Head of Police Pressure (DGP/HoPF) in-charge till the common appointment of an officer to the publish.

First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan mentioned somebody have to be appointed on an advert hoc foundation to carry out the duties of the workplace, till the common appointment, and therefore such advert hoc appointment couldn’t be challenged.

The judges additionally took notice that the Supreme Court had already passed certain orders on September 8 with respect to the appointment of a DGP on common foundation. Subsequently, the problem now made to the advert hoc association was utterly baseless, they noticed.

R. Varadaraj (69), a former Inspector of Police-turned-advocate and now president of Nethaji Makkal Katchi, had filed the PIL plea claiming to have been constantly engaged with public grievances referring to policing, accountability, and governance.

He contended that the State government ought to have taken steps to appoint a regular DGP/HoPF, particularly when a number of eligible Indian Police Service officers had been out there within the State than appointing an advert hoc DGP/HOPF by delaying the method of appointing an everyday DGP.